Too many parents make life hard for their children by trying, too zealously, to make it easy for them.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEThe intelligent man finds everything laughable, the sensible man hardly anything.
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I love those who yearn for the impossible.
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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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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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Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.
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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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To be pleased with one’s limits is a wretched state.
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He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.
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There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.
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The limits of my language are the limits of my universe.
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Leap and the net will appear.
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Every day I observe more and more the folly of judging of others by ourselves; and I have so much trouble with myself, and my own heart is in such constant agitation, that I am well content to let others pursue their own course, if they only allow me the same privilege.
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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 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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And all must follow in my wake.
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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!
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