The limits of my language are the limits of my universe.
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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I wait for the morning of my tears.
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A person hears only what they understand.
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There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.
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Difficulties increase the nearer we get to the goal.
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Know thyself? If I knew myself, I’d run away.
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The suffering may be moral or physical; and in my opinion it is just as absurd to call a man a coward who destroys himself, as to call a man a coward who dies of a malignant fever.
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Everybody wants to be somebody, but nobody wants to grow.
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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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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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Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward. They may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.
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There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
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If I accept you as you are, I will make you worse; however, if I treat you as though you are what you are capable of becoming, I help you become that.
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He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.
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Leap and the net will appear.
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On top of the world, or in the depths of despair.
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