To think is easy. To act is hard. But the hardest thing in the world is to act in accordance with your thinking.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEOne can stand anything except a succession of ordinary days.
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Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.
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There are two things children should get from their parents: roots and wings.
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I wait for the morning of my tears.
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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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The suffering may be moral or physical; and in my opinion it is just as absurd to call a man a coward who destroys himself, as to call a man a coward who dies of a malignant fever.
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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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Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.
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I laugh at my heart, and do its will.
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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 nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
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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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None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.
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I am not omniscient, but I know a lot.
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