Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it!
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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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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A word spoken is a terrible thing when it suddenly utters what the heart has long allowed.
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Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen.
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Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.
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Doubt can only be removed by action.
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Behaviour is a mirror in which every one displays his own image.
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To be loved for what one is, that is the greatest exception. The great majority love in others only what they lend him; their own selves, their version of him.
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The heights charm us, but the steps do not; with the mountain in our view we love to walk the plains.
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Everybody wants to be somebody, but nobody wants to grow.
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There are two things children should get from their parents: roots and wings.
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The intelligent man finds everything laughable, the sensible man hardly anything.
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One can stand anything except a succession of ordinary days.
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Two souls, alas, are housed within my breast, and each will wrestle for the mastery there.
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You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.
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