Too many parents make life hard for their children by trying, too zealously, to make it easy for them.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEThe highest goal that man can achieve is amazement.
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By seeking and blundering we learn.
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As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
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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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If I love you, what business is it of yours?
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Every situation–nay, every moment–is of infinite worth; for it is the representative of a whole eternity.
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We often feel that we lack something, and seem to see that very quality in someone else, promptly attributing all our own qualities to him too, and a kind of ideal contentment as well. And so the happy mortal is a model of complete perfection–which we have ourselves created.
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Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen.
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One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.
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When scholars study a thing, they strive to kill it first, if it’s alive; then they have the parts and they’ve lost the whole, for the link that’s missing was the living soul.
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We usually lost today because there has been a yesterday, and tomorrow is coming.
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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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What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
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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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Behaviour is a mirror in which every one displays his own image.
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Know thyself? If I knew myself, I’d run away.
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And all must follow in my wake.
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We know accurately only when we know little; doubt grows with knowledge.
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Few people have the imagination for reality.
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The rich want good wine, the poor, plenty of wine.
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To be pleased with one’s limits is a wretched state.
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I have so much in me, and the feeling for her absorbs it all; I have so much, and without her it all comes to nothing.
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What is uttered from the heart alone will win the heart of others to your own.
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The intelligent man finds everything laughable, the sensible man hardly anything.
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I laugh at my heart, and do its will.
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There are two things children should get from their parents: roots and wings.
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We all of us live upon the past, and through the past we are destroyed.
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