There is no past we can bring back by longing for it. There is only an eternal now that builds and creates out of the past something new and better.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEEverybody wants to be somebody, but nobody wants to grow.
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What I possess, seems far away to me, and what is gone becomes reality.
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We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.
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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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He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.
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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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We all of us live upon the past, and through the past we are destroyed.
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Every day I observe more and more the folly of judging of others by ourselves; and I have so much trouble with myself, and my own heart is in such constant agitation, that I am well content to let others pursue their own course, if they only allow me the same privilege.
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The human race is a monotonous affair. Most people spend the greatest part of their time working in order to live, and what little freedom remains so fills them with fear that they seek out any and every means to be rid of it.
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The intelligent man finds everything laughable, the sensible man hardly anything.
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Difficulties increase the nearer we get to the goal.
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He who cannot draw on three thousand years is living from hand to mouth.
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Leap and the net will appear.
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On top of the world, or in the depths of despair.
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Do not give in too much to feelings. A overly sensitive heart is an unhappy possession on this shaky earth.
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Misunderstandings and neglect occasion more mischief in the world than malice and wickedness.
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