One can stand anything except a succession of ordinary days.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEThe 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.
More Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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We know accurately only when we know little; doubt grows with knowledge.
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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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Every day one should at least hear one little song, read one good poem, see one fine painting and – if at all possible – speak a few sensible words.
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If you treat an individual as he is, he will remain how he is. But if you treat him as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be.
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We usually lost today because there has been a yesterday, and tomorrow is coming.
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A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.
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Instruction does much, but encouragement everything.
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On top of the world, or in the depths of despair.
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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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There are two things children should get from their parents: roots and wings.
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Everybody wants to be somebody, but nobody wants to grow.
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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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Nothing shows a man’s character more than what he laughs at.
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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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What I possess, seems far away to me, and what is gone becomes reality.
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