On top of the world, or in the depths of despair.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEThere are two things children should get from their parents: roots and wings.
More Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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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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What a torment it is to see so much loveliness passing and repassing before us, and yet not dare to lay hold of it!
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None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.
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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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What is uttered from the heart alone will win the heart of others to your own.
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I love those who yearn for the impossible.
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We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.
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By seeking and blundering we learn.
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I wait for the morning of my tears.
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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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A word spoken is a terrible thing when it suddenly utters what the heart has long allowed.
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Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it!
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Two souls, alas, are housed within my breast, and each will wrestle for the mastery there.
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Oblivion is full of people who allow the opinions of others to overrule their belief in themselves.
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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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