Everybody wants to be somebody, but nobody wants to grow.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEThings which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.
More Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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Every day one should at least hear one little song, read one good poem, see one fine painting and – if at all possible – speak a few sensible words.
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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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Behaviour is a mirror in which every one displays his own image.
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To be pleased with one’s limits is a wretched state.
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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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Difficulties increase the nearer we get to the goal.
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One can stand anything except a succession of ordinary days.
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Who is the happiest of men? He who values the merits of others, and in their pleasure takes joy, even as though ’twere his own.
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One never goes so far as when one doesn’t know where one is going.
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If I love you, what business is it of yours?
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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 is uttered from the heart alone will win the heart of others to your own.
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I am not omniscient, but I know a lot.
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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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We all of us live upon the past, and through the past we are destroyed.
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