A person hears only what they understand.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEAll that is transitory is but a metaphor.
More Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen.
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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.
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He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.
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I wait for the morning of my tears.
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Leap and the net will appear.
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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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There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.
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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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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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Love does not dominate; it cultivates.
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The deed is everything; the fame is nothing.
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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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Oblivion is full of people who allow the opinions of others to overrule their belief in themselves.
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You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.
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Remember to live.
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Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward. They may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.
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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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Everything transitory is but an image.
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A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.
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I have possessed that heart, that noble soul, in whose presence I seemed to be more than I really was, because I was all that I could be.
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If any man wish to write in a clear style, let him be first clear in his thoughts; and if any would write in a noble style, let him first possess a noble soul.
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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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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.
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Instruction does much, but encouragement everything.
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