By seeking and blundering we learn.
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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The human race is a monotonous affair. Most people spend the greatest part of their time working in order to live, and what little freedom remains so fills them with fear that they seek out any and every means to be rid of it.
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Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing.
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Everybody wants to be somebody, but nobody wants to grow.
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I am not omniscient, but I know a lot.
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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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Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward. They may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.
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All that is transitory is but a metaphor.
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A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul.
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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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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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On top of the world, or in the depths of despair.
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If I love you, what business is it of yours?
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In the colorful reflection we have what is life.
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Two souls, alas, are housed within my breast, and each will wrestle for the mastery there.
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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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Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.
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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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Too many parents make life hard for their children by trying, too zealously, to make it easy for them.
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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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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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We all of us live upon the past, and through the past we are destroyed.
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Remember to live.
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One can stand anything except a succession of ordinary days.
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None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.
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Every day one should at least hear one little song, read one good poem, see one fine painting and – if at all possible – speak a few sensible words.
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The rich want good wine, the poor, plenty of wine.
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