Nothing shows a man’s character more than what he laughs at.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEWhat you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
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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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If you’ve never eaten while crying you don’t know what life tastes like.
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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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Remember to live.
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Everything transitory is but an image.
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Do not give in too much to feelings. A overly sensitive heart is an unhappy possession on this shaky earth.
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The intelligent man finds everything laughable, the sensible man hardly anything.
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You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.
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To be pleased with one’s limits is a wretched state.
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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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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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Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing.
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A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.
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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.
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Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it!
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