A person hears only what they understand.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEWhat a torment it is to see so much loveliness passing and repassing before us, and yet not dare to lay hold of it!
More Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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In the colorful reflection we have what is life.
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Leap and the net will appear.
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We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.
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There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.
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Everybody wants to be somebody, but nobody wants to grow.
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What I possess, seems far away to me, and what is gone becomes reality.
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We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.
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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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Everything transitory is but an image.
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Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen.
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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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He who cannot draw on three thousand years is living from hand to mouth.
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All that is transitory is but a metaphor.
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Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it!
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To be pleased with one’s limits is a wretched state.
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