If you’ve never eaten while crying you don’t know what life tastes like.
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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Who is the happiest of men? He who values the merits of others, and in their pleasure takes joy, even as though ’twere his own.
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All that is transitory is but a metaphor.
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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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Every situation–nay, every moment–is of infinite worth; for it is the representative of a whole eternity.
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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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If I love you, what business is it of yours?
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We usually lost today because there has been a yesterday, and tomorrow is coming.
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What I possess, seems far away to me, and what is gone becomes reality.
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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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We all of us live upon the past, and through the past we are destroyed.
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Know thyself? If I knew myself, I’d run away.
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The heights charm us, but the steps do not; with the mountain in our view we love to walk the plains.
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Doubt can only be removed by action.
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Remember to live.
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If you treat an individual as he is, he will remain how he is. But if you treat him as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be.
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