Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing.
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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If I accept you as you are, I will make you worse; however, if I treat you as though you are what you are capable of becoming, I help you become that.
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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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We all of us live upon the past, and through the past we are destroyed.
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Behaviour is a mirror in which every one displays his own image.
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Know thyself? If I knew myself, I’d run away.
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The deed is everything; the fame is nothing.
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By seeking and blundering we learn.
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The highest goal that man can achieve is amazement.
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He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.
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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 I possess, seems far away to me, and what is gone becomes reality.
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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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The limits of my language are the limits of my universe.
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Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.
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Few people have the imagination for reality.
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