Too many parents make life hard for their children by trying, too zealously, to make it easy for them.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHENone are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.
More Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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Difficulties increase the nearer we get to the goal.
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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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There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.
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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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We know accurately only when we know little; doubt grows with knowledge.
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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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The limits of my language are the limits of my universe.
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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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Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen.
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Remember to live.
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Every reader, if he has a strong mind, reads himself into the book, and amalgamates his thoughts with those of the author.
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He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.
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We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.
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What I possess, seems far away to me, and what is gone becomes reality.
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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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