The greatest evil that can befall man is that he should come to think ill of himself.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEI treat my heart like a sick child and gratify its every fancy.
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Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward. They may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.
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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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What I possess, seems far away to me, and what is gone becomes reality.
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The suffering may be moral or physical; and in my opinion it is just as absurd to call a man a coward who destroys himself, as to call a man a coward who dies of a malignant fever.
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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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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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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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There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.
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I love those who yearn for the impossible.
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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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What is uttered from the heart alone will win the heart of others to your own.
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I laugh at my heart, and do its will.
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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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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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Leap and the net will appear.
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