One never goes so far as when one doesn’t know where one is going.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEThe 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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Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever.
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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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Everything transitory is but an image.
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What is uttered from the heart alone will win the heart of others to your own.
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We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.
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Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.
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I wait for the morning of my tears.
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One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.
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I laugh at my heart, and do its will.
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There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.
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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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The suffering may be moral or physical; and in my opinion it is just as absurd to call a man a coward who destroys himself, as to call a man a coward who dies of a malignant fever.
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There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.
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What I possess, seems far away to me, and what is gone becomes reality.
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Difficulties increase the nearer we get to the goal.
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