A word spoken is a terrible thing when it suddenly utters what the heart has long allowed.
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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We all of us live upon the past, and through the past we are destroyed.
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The greatest evil that can befall man is that he should come to think ill of himself.
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In the colorful reflection we have what is life.
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The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers & cities; but to know someone who thinks & feels with us, & who, though distant, is close to us in spirit, this makes the earth for us an inhabited garden.
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There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.
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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 be pleased with one’s limits is a wretched state.
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Is this the destiny of man? Is he only happy before he has acquired his reason or after he has lost it?
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By seeking and blundering we learn.
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Love does not dominate; it cultivates.
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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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The intelligent man finds everything laughable, the sensible man hardly anything.
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Few people have the imagination for reality.
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What I possess, seems far away to me, and what is gone becomes reality.
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The highest goal that man can achieve is amazement.
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