There is no past we can bring back by longing for it. There is only an eternal now that builds and creates out of the past something new and better.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEAll that is transitory is but a metaphor.
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The rich want good wine, the poor, plenty of wine.
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On top of the world, or in the depths of despair.
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Nothing shows a man’s character more than what he laughs at.
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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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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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Every situation–nay, every moment–is of infinite worth; for it is the representative of a whole eternity.
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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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Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.
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A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.
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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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There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
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Remember to live.
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Night is the other half of life, and the better half.
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Two souls, alas, are housed within my breast, and each will wrestle for the mastery there.
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By seeking and blundering we learn.
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