All that is transitory is but a metaphor.
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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One can stand anything except a succession of ordinary days.
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Leap and the net will appear.
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Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.
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The deed is everything; the fame is nothing.
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We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.
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Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it!
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What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.
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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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One never goes so far as when one doesn’t know where one is going.
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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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I laugh at my heart, and do its will.
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The rich want good wine, the poor, plenty of wine.
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Remember to live.
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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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