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.
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.
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There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.
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What is uttered from the heart alone will win the heart of others to your own.
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I love those who yearn for the impossible.
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Misunderstandings and neglect occasion more mischief in the world than malice and wickedness.
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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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In the colorful reflection we have what is life.
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Too many parents make life hard for their children by trying, too zealously, to make it easy for them.
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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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We know accurately only when we know little; doubt grows with knowledge.
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Leap and the net will appear.
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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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Love does not dominate; it cultivates.
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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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Know thyself? If I knew myself, I’d run away.
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Everybody wants to be somebody, but nobody wants to grow.
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