To think is easy. To act is hard. But the hardest thing in the world is to act in accordance with your thinking.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEKnowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.
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Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever.
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As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
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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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Every day one should at least hear one little song, read one good poem, see one fine painting and – if at all possible – speak a few sensible words.
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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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One never goes so far as when one doesn’t know where one is going.
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The limits of my language are the limits of my universe.
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What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
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He who cannot draw on three thousand years is living from hand to mouth.
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Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.
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Every reader, if he has a strong mind, reads himself into the book, and amalgamates his thoughts with those of the author.
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By seeking and blundering we learn.
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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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Few people have the imagination for reality.
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I have possessed that heart, that noble soul, in whose presence I seemed to be more than I really was, because I was all that I could be.
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