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.
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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If I love you, what business is it of yours?
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We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.
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A person hears only what they understand.
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Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever.
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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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Everything transitory is but an image.
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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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What I possess, seems far away to me, and what is gone becomes reality.
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None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.
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And all must follow in my wake.
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Love does not dominate; it cultivates.
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Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.
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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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A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.
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If any man wish to write in a clear style, let him be first clear in his thoughts; and if any would write in a noble style, let him first possess a noble soul.
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