Johann Wolfgang von Goethe on easy
“To think is easy. To act is hard. But the hardest thing in the world is to act in accordance with your thinking.”
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Johann Wolfgang von GoetheJohann Wolfgang von Goethe I have possessed that heart, that noble soul, in whose presence I seemed to be more than I really was, because I was all that I could be.
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Johann Wolfgang von GoetheJohann Wolfgang von Goethe As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheJohann Wolfgang von Goethe Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever.
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Johann Wolfgang von GoetheJohann Wolfgang von Goethe The deed is everything; the fame is nothing.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheJohann Wolfgang von Goethe If you treat an individual as he is, he will remain how he is. But if you treat him as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheJohann Wolfgang von Goethe And all must follow in my wake.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheJohann Wolfgang von Goethe A person hears only what they understand.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheJohann Wolfgang von Goethe If I love you, what business is it of yours?
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheJohann Wolfgang von Goethe How often do I lull my seething blood to rest, for you have never seen anything so unsteady, so uncertain, as this heart.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheJohann Wolfgang von Goethe Every day I observe more and more the folly of judging of others by ourselves; and I have so much trouble with myself, and my own heart is in such constant agitation, that I am well content to let others pursue their own course, if they only allow me the same privilege.
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