Too many parents make life hard for their children by trying, too zealously, to make it easy for them.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEIf any man wish to write in a clear style, let him be first clear in his thoughts; and if any would write in a noble style, let him first possess a noble soul.
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There is no past we can bring back by longing for it. There is only an eternal now that builds and creates out of the past something new and better.
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Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.
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To think is easy. To act is hard. But the hardest thing in the world is to act in accordance with your thinking.
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If I accept you as you are, I will make you worse; however, if I treat you as though you are what you are capable of becoming, I help you become that.
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I am not omniscient, but I know a lot.
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For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him, he must regard himself as greater than he is.
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Everybody wants to be somebody, but nobody wants to grow.
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If any man wish to write in a clear style, let him be first clear in his thoughts; and if any would write in a noble style, let him first possess a noble soul.
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Nothing is more dangerous than solitude.
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Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it!
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You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.
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Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever.
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If I love you, what business is it of yours?
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There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
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The suffering may be moral or physical; and in my opinion it is just as absurd to call a man a coward who destroys himself, as to call a man a coward who dies of a malignant fever.
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Difficulties increase the nearer we get to the goal.
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A person hears only what they understand.
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What is uttered from the heart alone will win the heart of others to your own.
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Love does not dominate; it cultivates.
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How often do I lull my seething blood to rest, for you have never seen anything so unsteady, so uncertain, as this heart.
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There are two things children should get from their parents: roots and wings.
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I love those who yearn for the impossible.
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Leap and the net will appear.
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Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing.
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I treat my heart like a sick child and gratify its every fancy.
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Oblivion is full of people who allow the opinions of others to overrule their belief in themselves.
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