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.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEWhat I possess, seems far away to me, and what is gone becomes reality.
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I am not omniscient, but I know a lot.
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If I love you, what business is it of yours?
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What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.
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Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.
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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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Everybody wants to be somebody, but nobody wants to grow.
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Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it!
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What I possess, seems far away to me, and what is gone becomes reality.
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To be pleased with one’s limits is a wretched state.
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On top of the world, or in the depths of despair.
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The deed is everything; the fame is nothing.
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The intelligent man finds everything laughable, the sensible man hardly anything.
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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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Doubt can only be removed by action.
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The limits of my language are the limits of my universe.
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