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 GOETHEWhat a torment it is to see so much loveliness passing and repassing before us, and yet not dare to lay hold of it!
More Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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On top of the world, or in the depths of despair.
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One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.
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The deed is everything; the fame is 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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By seeking and blundering we learn.
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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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The intelligent man finds everything laughable, the sensible man hardly anything.
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I laugh at my heart, and do its will.
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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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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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The limits of my language are the limits of my universe.
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Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.
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We often feel that we lack something, and seem to see that very quality in someone else, promptly attributing all our own qualities to him too, and a kind of ideal contentment as well. And so the happy mortal is a model of complete perfection–which we have ourselves created.
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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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Night is the other half of life, and the better half.
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