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 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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I love those who yearn for the impossible.
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I am not omniscient, but I know a lot.
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A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.
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By seeking and blundering we learn.
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A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.
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Night is the other half of life, and the better half.
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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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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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Two souls, alas, are housed within my breast, and each will wrestle for the mastery there.
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One can stand anything except a succession of ordinary days.
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Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.
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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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Nothing is more dangerous than solitude.
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Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever.
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