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.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEAll that is transitory is but a metaphor.
More Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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Nothing shows a man’s character more than what he laughs at.
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In happy ignorance, I sighed for a world I did not know, where I hoped to find every pleasure and enjoyment which my heart could desire; and now, on my return from that wide world, how many disappointed hopes and unsuccessful plans have I brought back!
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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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The intelligent man finds everything laughable, the sensible man hardly anything.
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I laugh at my heart, and do its will.
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On top of the world, or in the depths of despair.
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I wait for the morning of my tears.
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What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.
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As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
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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 I possess, seems far away to me, and what is gone becomes reality.
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Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.
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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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There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.
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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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