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.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEOne never goes so far as when one doesn’t know where one is going.
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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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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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There are two things children should get from their parents: roots and wings.
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Leap and the net will appear.
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There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.
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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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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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Oblivion is full of people who allow the opinions of others to overrule their belief in themselves.
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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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Remember to live.
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Is this the destiny of man? Is he only happy before he has acquired his reason or after he has lost it?
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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 limits of my language are the limits of my universe.
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We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.
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None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.
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