Too many parents make life hard for their children by trying, too zealously, to make it easy for them.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEEvery situation–nay, every moment–is of infinite worth; for it is the representative of a whole eternity.
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Two souls, alas, are housed within my breast, and each will wrestle for the mastery there.
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In the colorful reflection we have what is life.
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Nothing is more dangerous than solitude.
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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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Love does not dominate; it cultivates.
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Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it!
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Doubt can only be removed by action.
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As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
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Know thyself? If I knew myself, I’d run away.
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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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Nothing shows a man’s character more than what he laughs at.
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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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Difficulties increase the nearer we get to the goal.
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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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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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