Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
Human life runs its course in the metamorphosis between receiving and giving.
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We are guilty of many errors and many faults, But our worst crime is abandoning the children, Neglecting the fountain of life. Many of the things we need can wait. The child cannot. Right now is the time his bones are being formed, His blood is being made, And his senses are being developed. To him we cannot answer 'Tomorrow.' His name is 'Today.'
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You hope that the same people are coming back. I love playing with Angela [Bassett]. She's fierce. I met her years and years ago when she was a student at Yale, so to see her do these fierce roles and go on to [be] this powerhouse has just been awesome.
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His hands can't hit what his eyes can't see.
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It is as important to cultivate your silence power as your word power.
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There is no calamity greater than lavish desires. There is no greater guilt than discontent. And there is no greater disaster than greed.
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Respect yourself as well as others; make commitments, not excuses, and make every day a fun day.
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But I do not remember ever having seen a newspaper in the house; and, most certainly, that privation did not render us less industrious, happy, or free.
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I believe the best definition of man is the ungrateful biped.
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Nothing is so impenetrable as laughter in a language you don't understand.
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Happiness is the greatest hiding place for despair.
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I went to West Texas and started writing a cycle of Americana poems after the space conjured images that, as a child, I only saw on television-John Wayne, cowboys, borderlines. But suddenly, I felt close to these once-foreign imageries and wondered how I'd changed. Each evening brought the darkest skies in the country, and I understood the expansiveness of our inner selves. Ultimately nothing divides us except the worlds and words we allow.
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Human life runs its course in the metamorphosis between receiving and giving.
