If you treat an individual as he is, he will remain how he is. But if you treat him as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEThe human race is a monotonous affair. Most people spend the greatest part of their time working in order to live, and what little freedom remains so fills them with fear that they seek out any and every means to be rid of it.
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Behaviour is a mirror in which every one displays his own image.
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The heights charm us, but the steps do not; with the mountain in our view we love to walk the plains.
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On top of the world, or in the depths of despair.
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We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.
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Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.
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Remember to live.
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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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Every day one should at least hear one little song, read one good poem, see one fine painting and – if at all possible – speak a few sensible words.
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When scholars study a thing, they strive to kill it first, if it’s alive; then they have the parts and they’ve lost the whole, for the link that’s missing was the living soul.
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What I possess, seems far away to me, and what is gone becomes reality.
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One can stand anything except a succession of ordinary days.
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There are two things children should get from their parents: roots and wings.
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Love does not dominate; it cultivates.
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The highest goal that man can achieve is amazement.
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By seeking and blundering we learn.
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