The highest goal that man can achieve is amazement.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEIf 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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If I love you, what business is it of yours?
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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.
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Love does not dominate; it cultivates.
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He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.
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The rich want good wine, the poor, plenty of wine.
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Nothing shows a man’s character more than what he laughs at.
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There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.
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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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The 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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I have so much in me, and the feeling for her absorbs it all; I have so much, and without her it all comes to nothing.
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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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Misunderstandings and neglect occasion more mischief in the world than malice and wickedness.
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We all of us live upon the past, and through the past we are destroyed.
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As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
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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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