Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEOn top of the world, or in the depths of despair.
More Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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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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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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When scholars study a thing, they strive to kill it first, if it’s alive; then they have the parts and they’ve lost the whole, for the link that’s missing was the living soul.
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What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.
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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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I love those who yearn for the impossible.
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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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Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.
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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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A word spoken is a terrible thing when it suddenly utters what the heart has long allowed.
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Remember to live.
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If you’ve never eaten while crying you don’t know what life tastes like.
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And all must follow in my wake.
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Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.
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To think is easy. To act is hard. But the hardest thing in the world is to act in accordance with your thinking.
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