Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEIs 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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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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If I accept you as you are, I will make you worse; however, if I treat you as though you are what you are capable of becoming, I help you become that.
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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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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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As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
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I love those who yearn for the impossible.
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Instruction does much, but encouragement everything.
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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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Everything transitory is but an image.
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He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.
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We know accurately only when we know little; doubt grows with knowledge.
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The heights charm us, but the steps do not; with the mountain in our view we love to walk the plains.
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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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What is uttered from the heart alone will win the heart of others to your own.
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A person hears only what they understand.
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