We usually lost today because there has been a yesterday, and tomorrow is coming.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEOne can stand anything except a succession of ordinary days.
More Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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I treat my heart like a sick child and gratify its every fancy.
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As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
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The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers & cities; but to know someone who thinks & feels with us, & who, though distant, is close to us in spirit, this makes the earth for us an inhabited garden.
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Nothing is more dangerous than solitude.
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Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.
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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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The intelligent man finds everything laughable, the sensible man hardly anything.
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Misunderstandings and neglect occasion more mischief in the world than malice and wickedness.
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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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All that is transitory is but a metaphor.
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To be pleased with one’s limits is a wretched state.
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Love does not dominate; it cultivates.
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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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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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What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.
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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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We often feel that we lack something, and seem to see that very quality in someone else, promptly attributing all our own qualities to him too, and a kind of ideal contentment as well. And so the happy mortal is a model of complete perfection–which we have ourselves created.
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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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And all must follow in my wake.
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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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Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing.
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There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
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I am not omniscient, but I know a lot.
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What is uttered from the heart alone will win the heart of others to your own.
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Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen.
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If you’ve never eaten while crying you don’t know what life tastes like.
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