All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own.
Johann Wolfgang Von GoetheRead
To appreciate the noble is a gain which can never be torn from us.
Interpretation
Valuing noble qualities enriches our lives permanently.
This quote emphasizes the importance of appreciating noble qualities, such as virtue and integrity, as these values not only elevate our perspective but also become an enduring part of who we are. Recognizing and cherishing such traits provides us with lasting wisdom and strength that cannot be taken away, even in challenging times.
In practice
In a speech about personal growth, one might say, 'Remember, to appreciate the noble is a gain which can never be torn from us.'
All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own.
Destiny grants us our wishes, but in its own way, in order to give us something beyond our wishes.
There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From its springs the purest courtesy in the outward behavior.
I am amazed to see how deliberately I have entangled myself step by step. To have seen my position so clearly, and yet to have acted so like a child!
Seldom in the business and transactions of ordinary life, do we find the sympathy we want.
Know thyself? If I knew myself I would run away.
It's never what people do that makes us angry; it's what we tell ourselves about what they did.
Those who do not know the torment of the unknown cannot have the joy of discovery.
There is no better than adversity. Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss, contains its own seed, its own lesson on how to improve your performance the next time.
When you are present, when your attention is fully in the Now, Presence will flow into and transform what you do. There will be a quality and power in it. You are present when what you are doing is not primarily a means to an end (money, prestige, winning) but fulfilling in itself, when there is joy and aliveness in what you do.
Genius has no country. It blossoms everywhere. Genius is like the light, the air. It is the heritage of all.
First you must learn to control your self. The rest follows. Blessed is he who knows himself and commands himself, for the world is his and love and happiness and peace walk with him wherever he goes.
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