Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
Oh God, how do the world and heavens confine themselves, when our hearts tremble in their own barriers!
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Love is the funeral of hearts.
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People vote with their hearts, not their heads.
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Millions of Spaniards have Catalonia in their hearts.
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When people see you do alright, then you start winning their hearts. It's not going to come easy, though. It doesn't matter how many people you do right, you're still going to be hated by so many others. You can't live your life trying to make everybody happy.
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Differences of habit and language are nothing at all if our aims are identical and our hearts are open.
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Whose hearts must I break? What lies must I maintain? - Through whose blood am I to wade ?
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When one of us tells the truth, he makes it easier for all of us to open our hearts to our pain and that of others.
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As useful as it may be, in the end, I don't think technology can ever fully express what people are feeling in their hearts.
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I believe in holding still. I believe that the secrets we hold in our hearts are our anchors, that even the unspoken between us is a measure of our every promise to the living and to the dead. And all our promises, like all our hopes, move us through life with the power of an ocean liner pushing through the sea.
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Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.
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Those whose hearts are fixed on Reality itself deserve the title of Philosophers.
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When pure sincerity forms within, it is outwardly realized in other people's hearts.
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True love doesn't consist of holding hands, it consists of holding hearts.
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Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.
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God, the best maker of all marriages, Combine your hearts into one.
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Mud, raised by hurricanes, wells up in the noblest and purest of hearts.
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Even those who have renounced Christianity and attack it, in their inmost being still follow the Christian ideal, for hitherto neither their subtlety nor the ardour of their hearts has been able to create a higher ideal of man and of virtue than the ideal given by Christ of old.
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But the people of the Baltic nations also knew that freedom needs a foundation of security.
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Learn the true topography; the monstrous and wonderful archetypes are not inside you, not inside your consciousness; you are inside them, trapped and howling to get out
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The quality that defines us as Americans is the courage to respond to being hit. The courage to root out and destroy the killers. And, most importantly, the courage to hold on to our values and protect our hard-won freedoms while doing it.
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The shift to a cleaner energy economy wont happen overnight, and it will require tough choices along the way. But the debate is settled. Climate change is a fact.
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The type and formula of most schemes of philanthropy or humanitarianism is this: A and B put their heads together to decide what C shall be made to do for D. . . . I call C the Forgotten Man.
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Oh God, how do the world and heavens confine themselves, when our hearts tremble in their own barriers!
