In happy ignorance, I sighed for a world I did not know, where I hoped to find every pleasure and enjoyment which my heart could desire; and now, on my return from that wide world, how many disappointed hopes and unsuccessful plans have I brought back!
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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What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
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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 who cannot draw on three thousand years is living from hand to mouth.
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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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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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A word spoken is a terrible thing when it suddenly utters what the heart has long allowed.
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You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.
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What is uttered from the heart alone will win the heart of others to your own.
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A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.
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The heights charm us, but the steps do not; with the mountain in our view we love to walk the plains.
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I have so much in me, and the feeling for her absorbs it all; I have so much, and without her it all comes to nothing.
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The intelligent man finds everything laughable, the sensible man hardly anything.
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I treat my heart like a sick child and gratify its every fancy.
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Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it!
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Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.
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