"It is in human nature to relax,..." - Quote by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
It is in human nature to relax, when not compelled by personal advantage or disadvantage.
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“What I possess I would gladly retain. Change amuses the mind, yet scarcely profits.”
“I do not now begin, - I still adore Her whom I early cherish'd in my breast; Then once again with prudence dispossess'd, And to whose heart I'm driven back once more. The love of Petrarch, that all-glorious love, Was unrequited, and, alas, full sad.”
“Art is a mediator of the unspeakable.”
More on Human Nature
“You have heretofore found out, by my teachings, that man is a fool; you are now aware that woman is a damned fool.”
“Cruel people are ever cowards in emergency.”
“I believe the power of observation in numbers of very young children to be quite wonderful for its closeness and accuracy. Indeed, I think that most grown people who are remarkable in this respect, may with greater propriety be said not to have lost the faculty, than to have acquired it; the rather, as I generally observe such men to retain a certain freshness, and gentleness, and capacity of being pleased, which are also an inheritance they have preserved from their childhood.”
More on Motivation
“We generally change ourselves for one of two reasons: inspiration or desperation.”
“Oh the places you'll go! There is fun to be done! There are points to be scored. There are games to be won. And the magical things you can do with that ball will make you the winning-est winner of all.”
“No one has ever drowned in sweat.”