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 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.
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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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What I possess, seems far away to me, and what is gone becomes reality.
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The highest goal that man can achieve is amazement.
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The limits of my language are the limits of my universe.
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Doubt can only be removed by action.
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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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All that is transitory is but a metaphor.
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A word spoken is a terrible thing when it suddenly utters what the heart has long allowed.
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One never goes so far as when one doesn’t know where one is going.
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Every situation–nay, every moment–is of infinite worth; for it is the representative of a whole eternity.
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Instruction does much, but encouragement everything.
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One can stand anything except a succession of ordinary days.
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I have possessed that heart, that noble soul, in whose presence I seemed to be more than I really was, because I was all that I could be.
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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 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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