Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHELove does not dominate; it cultivates.
More Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.
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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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One can stand anything except a succession of ordinary days.
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Night is the other half of life, and the better half.
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The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers & cities; but to know someone who thinks & feels with us, & who, though distant, is close to us in spirit, this makes the earth for us an inhabited garden.
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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.
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By seeking and blundering we learn.
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I laugh at my heart, and do its will.
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Know thyself? If I knew myself, I’d run away.
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A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.
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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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He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.
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We all of us live upon the past, and through the past we are destroyed.
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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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Everything transitory is but an image.
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