Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEOne ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.
More Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
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I wait for the morning of my tears.
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A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.
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What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.
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There 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 love you, what business is it of yours?
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I treat my heart like a sick child and gratify its every fancy.
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We often feel that we lack something, and seem to see that very quality in someone else, promptly attributing all our own qualities to him too, and a kind of ideal contentment as well. And so the happy mortal is a model of complete perfection–which we have ourselves created.
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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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The greatest evil that can befall man is that he should come to think ill of himself.
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A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul.
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I laugh at my heart, and do its will.
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How often do I lull my seething blood to rest, for you have never seen anything so unsteady, so uncertain, as this heart.
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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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We know accurately only when we know little; doubt grows with knowledge.
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