A person hears only what they understand.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEOne can stand anything except a succession of ordinary days.
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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He who cannot draw on three thousand years is living from hand to mouth.
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What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
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There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
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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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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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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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Love does not dominate; it cultivates.
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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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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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A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.
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The rich want good wine, the poor, plenty of wine.
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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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On top of the world, or in the depths of despair.
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