He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEEverybody wants to be somebody, but nobody wants to grow.
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Difficulties increase the nearer we get to the goal.
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To be loved for what one is, that is the greatest exception. The great majority love in others only what they lend him; their own selves, their version of him.
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There are two things children should get from their parents: roots and wings.
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I treat my heart like a sick child and gratify its every fancy.
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In the colorful reflection we have what is life.
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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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Everything transitory is but an image.
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Few people have the imagination for reality.
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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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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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One can stand anything except a succession of ordinary days.
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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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Love does not dominate; it cultivates.
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If you’ve never eaten while crying you don’t know what life tastes like.
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We know accurately only when we know little; doubt grows with knowledge.
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