What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEWe are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.
More Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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The deed is everything; the fame is nothing.
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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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We all of us live upon the past, and through the past we are destroyed.
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Love does not dominate; it cultivates.
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Difficulties increase the nearer we get to the goal.
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In the colorful reflection we have what is life.
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The rich want good wine, the poor, plenty of wine.
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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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A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.
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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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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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What I possess, seems far away to me, and what is gone becomes reality.
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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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To be loved for what one is, that is the greatest exception. The great majority love in others only what they lend him; their own selves, their version of him.
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What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.
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