There is no past we can bring back by longing for it. There is only an eternal now that builds and creates out of the past something new and better.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEToo many parents make life hard for their children by trying, too zealously, to make it easy for them.
More Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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Nothing is more dangerous than solitude.
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I laugh at my heart, and do its will.
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The deed is everything; the fame is nothing.
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None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.
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The limits of my language are the limits of my universe.
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What a torment it is to see so much loveliness passing and repassing before us, and yet not dare to lay hold of it!
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The highest goal that man can achieve is amazement.
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In happy ignorance, I sighed for a world I did not know, where I hoped to find every pleasure and enjoyment which my heart could desire; and now, on my return from that wide world, how many disappointed hopes and unsuccessful plans have I brought back!
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There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
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Behaviour is a mirror in which every one displays his own image.
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If I love you, what business is it of yours?
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The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers & cities; but to know someone who thinks & feels with us, & who, though distant, is close to us in spirit, this makes the earth for us an inhabited garden.
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Instruction does much, but encouragement everything.
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On top of the world, or in the depths of despair.
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Two souls, alas, are housed within my breast, and each will wrestle for the mastery there.
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