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.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHETwo souls, alas, are housed within my breast, and each will wrestle for the mastery there.
More Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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Behaviour is a mirror in which every one displays his own image.
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I treat my heart like a sick child and gratify its every fancy.
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On top of the world, or in the depths of despair.
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Everything transitory is but an image.
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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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Is this the destiny of man? Is he only happy before he has acquired his reason or after he has lost it?
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Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.
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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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He who cannot draw on three thousand years is living from hand to mouth.
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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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Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.
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For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him, he must regard himself as greater than he is.
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The highest goal that man can achieve is amazement.
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What I possess, seems far away to me, and what is gone becomes reality.
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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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