Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEWhat 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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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.
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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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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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There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.
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If you’ve never eaten while crying you don’t know what life tastes like.
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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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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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We know accurately only when we know little; doubt grows with knowledge.
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There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.
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I wait for the morning of my tears.
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Leap and the net will appear.
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All that is transitory is but a metaphor.
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Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever.
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A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.
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Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.
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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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Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.
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He who cannot draw on three thousand years is living from hand to mouth.
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Every situation–nay, every moment–is of infinite worth; for it is the representative of a whole eternity.
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Behaviour is a mirror in which every one displays his own image.
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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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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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None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.
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What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
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Know thyself? If I knew myself, I’d run away.
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Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen.
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