Do not give in too much to feelings. A overly sensitive heart is an unhappy possession on this shaky earth.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEOn top of the world, or in the depths of despair.
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By seeking and blundering we learn.
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Love does not dominate; it cultivates.
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Everybody wants to be somebody, but nobody wants to grow.
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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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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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For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him, he must regard himself as greater than he is.
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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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Every situation–nay, every moment–is of infinite worth; for it is the representative of a whole eternity.
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The intelligent man finds everything laughable, the sensible man hardly anything.
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To be pleased with one’s limits is a wretched state.
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I treat my heart like a sick child and gratify its every fancy.
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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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Two souls, alas, are housed within my breast, and each will wrestle for the mastery there.
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Doubt can only be removed by action.
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Behaviour is a mirror in which every one displays his own image.
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We all of us live upon the past, and through the past we are destroyed.
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Difficulties increase the nearer we get to the goal.
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None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.
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And all must follow in my wake.
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The human race is a monotonous affair. Most people spend the greatest part of their time working in order to live, and what little freedom remains so fills them with fear that they seek out any and every means to be rid of it.
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If I love you, what business is it of yours?
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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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I wait for the morning of my tears.
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There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
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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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I am not omniscient, but I know a lot.
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