Oblivion is full of people who allow the opinions of others to overrule their belief in themselves.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEHow 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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Know thyself? If I knew myself, I’d run away.
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A person hears only what they understand.
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What a torment it is to see so much loveliness passing and repassing before us, and yet not dare to lay hold of it!
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By seeking and blundering we learn.
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Instruction does much, but encouragement everything.
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There are two things children should get from their parents: roots and wings.
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Do not give in too much to feelings. A overly sensitive heart is an unhappy possession on this shaky earth.
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Two souls, alas, are housed within my breast, and each will wrestle for the mastery there.
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Too many parents make life hard for their children by trying, too zealously, to make it easy for them.
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Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing.
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One never goes so far as when one doesn’t know where one is going.
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I am not omniscient, but I know a lot.
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None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.
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Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.
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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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