What is uttered from the heart alone will win the heart of others to your own.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEOblivion is full of people who allow the opinions of others to overrule their belief in themselves.
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What I possess, seems far away to me, and what is gone becomes reality.
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Who is the happiest of men? He who values the merits of others, and in their pleasure takes joy, even as though ’twere his own.
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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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I treat my heart like a sick child and gratify its every fancy.
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A person hears only what they understand.
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Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.
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We usually lost today because there has been a yesterday, and tomorrow is coming.
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Two souls, alas, are housed within my breast, and each will wrestle for the mastery there.
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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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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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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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What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
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The limits of my language are the limits of my universe.
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The intelligent man finds everything laughable, the sensible man hardly anything.
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