"Nothing should be valued higher than the..." - Quote by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Nothing should be valued higher than the value of the day.
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“Behavior is a mirror in which every one shows his image.[Ger., Das Betragen ist ein Spiegel in welchem jeder sein Bild zeigt.]”
“He who is firm and resolute in will molds the world to himself.”
“What reason would grope for in vain, spontaneous impulse ofttimes achieves at a stroke, with light and pleasureful guidance.”
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“The meaning and purpose of dancing is the dance. Like music also, it is fulfilled in each moment of its course. You do not play a sonata in order to reach the final chord, and if the meaning of things were simply in ends, composers would write nothing but finales.”
“We cannot start over, but we can begin now, and make a new beginning”
“To play well the scenes in which we are 'on' concerns us much more than to guess about the scenes that follow it.”
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“We hammer wood for a house, but it is the inner space that makes it liveable.”
“Having my freedom, boast of nothing else.”
“In those days, when my hands were much employed, I read but little, but the least scraps of paper which lay on the ground, my holder, or tablecloth, afforded me as much entertainment, in fact answered the same purpose as the Iliad.”