There are two things children should get from their parents: roots and wings.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEWhat is uttered from the heart alone will win the heart of others to your own.
More Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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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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A word spoken is a terrible thing when it suddenly utters what the heart has long allowed.
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The rich want good wine, the poor, plenty of wine.
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Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen.
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To be pleased with one’s limits is a wretched state.
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The deed is everything; the fame is nothing.
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Do not give in too much to feelings. A overly sensitive heart is an unhappy possession on this shaky earth.
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The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers & cities; but to know someone who thinks & feels with us, & who, though distant, is close to us in spirit, this makes the earth for us an inhabited garden.
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Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.
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One never goes so far as when one doesn’t know where one is going.
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Everybody wants to be somebody, but nobody wants to grow.
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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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Instruction does much, but encouragement everything.
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We all of us live upon the past, and through the past we are destroyed.
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By seeking and blundering we learn.
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