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.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEOn top of the world, or in the depths of despair.
More Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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And all must follow in my wake.
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If you’ve never eaten while crying you don’t know what life tastes like.
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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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A word spoken is a terrible thing when it suddenly utters what the heart has long allowed.
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Behaviour is a mirror in which every one displays his own image.
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A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul.
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He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.
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Two souls, alas, are housed within my breast, and each will wrestle for the mastery there.
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Few people have the imagination for reality.
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In happy ignorance, I sighed for a world I did not know, where I hoped to find every pleasure and enjoyment which my heart could desire; and now, on my return from that wide world, how many disappointed hopes and unsuccessful plans have I brought back!
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Every reader, if he has a strong mind, reads himself into the book, and amalgamates his thoughts with those of the author.
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If I love you, what business is it of yours?
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In the colorful reflection we have what is life.
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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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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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