Everybody wants to be somebody, but nobody wants to grow.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEHe is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.
More Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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The limits of my language are the limits of my universe.
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Difficulties increase the nearer we get to the goal.
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None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.
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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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We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.
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There are two things children should get from their parents: roots and wings.
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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 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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Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing.
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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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Instruction does much, but encouragement everything.
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Oblivion is full of people who allow the opinions of others to overrule their belief in themselves.
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By seeking and blundering we learn.
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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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