And all must follow in my wake.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEThere 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.
More Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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If you’ve never eaten while crying you don’t know what life tastes like.
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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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Who is the happiest of men? He who values the merits of others, and in their pleasure takes joy, even as though ’twere his own.
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Remember to live.
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What I possess, seems far away to me, and what is gone becomes reality.
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Two souls, alas, are housed within my breast, and each will wrestle for the mastery there.
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I treat my heart like a sick child and gratify its every fancy.
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We know accurately only when we know little; doubt grows with knowledge.
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Night is the other half of life, and the better half.
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A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.
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What is uttered from the heart alone will win the heart of others to your own.
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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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Few people have the imagination for reality.
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Nothing shows a man’s character more than what he laughs at.
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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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