I am not omniscient, but I know a lot.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEWhat you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
More Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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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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A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.
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To be pleased with one’s limits is a wretched state.
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Nothing shows a man’s character more than what he laughs at.
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Every day I observe more and more the folly of judging of others by ourselves; and I have so much trouble with myself, and my own heart is in such constant agitation, that I am well content to let others pursue their own course, if they only allow me the same privilege.
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There are two things children should get from their parents: roots and wings.
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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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Remember to live.
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Oblivion is full of people who allow the opinions of others to overrule their belief in themselves.
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Is 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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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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Do not give in too much to feelings. A overly sensitive heart is an unhappy possession on this shaky earth.
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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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We usually lost today because there has been a yesterday, and tomorrow is coming.
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What I possess, seems far away to me, and what is gone becomes reality.
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