All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own.
The further one advances in experience, the closer one comes to the unfathomable; the more one learns to utilize experience, the more one recognizes that the unfathomable is of no practical value.
Fret not over the irretrievable, but ever act as if thy life were just begun.
To think is easy. To act is hard. But the hardest thing in the world is to act in accordance with your thinking.
Nothing tells more about the character of a man than the things he makes fun of.
When two men quarrel, who owns the cooler head is the more to blame.
To act is easy, to think is hard; to act according to our thought is troublesome.
All truly wise thoughts have been thought already thousands of times; but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, until they take root in our personal experience.
Tolerance should really be only a temporary attitude; it must lead to recognition. To tolerate means to offend.
Hatred is active displeasure, envy passive. We need not wonder that envy turns to soon to hatred.
No one is willing to believe that adults too, like children, wander about this earth in a daze and, like children, do not know where they come from or where they are going, act as rarely as they do according to genuine motives, and are as thoroughly governed as they are by biscuits and cake and the rod.
Look at a man the way he is and he only becomes worse, but look at him as if he were what he could be, then he becomes what he should be.
If you've never eaten while crying you don t know what life tastes like.
Wherever a man may happen to turn, whatever a man may undertake, he will always end up by returning to that path which nature has marked out for him.
Night is the other half of life, and the better half.
If you miss the first buttonhole, you will not succeed in buttoning up your coat.
The misery that oppresses you lies not in your profession but in yourself! What man in the world would not find his situation intolerable if he chooses a craft, an art, indeed any form of life, without experiencing an inner calling? Whoever is born with a talent, or to a talent, must surely find in that the most pleasing of occupations! Everything on this earth has its difficult sides! Only some inner drive - pleasure, love - can help us overcome obstacles, prepare a path, and lift as out of the narrow circle in which others tread out their anguished, miserable existences!
Just begin and the mind grows heated; continue, and the task will be completed!
If God had wanted me otherwise, He would have created me otherwise.
A joy shared is a joy doubled.
Great possessions and great want of them are both strong temptations.
Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.
A great artist... must be shaken by the naked truths that will not be comforted. This divine discontent, this disequilibrium, this state of inner tension is the source of artistic energy.
Life is too short to drink bad wine.
When translating one must proceed up to the intranslatable; only then one becomes aware of the foreign nation and the foreign tongue.
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