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 GOETHEWe 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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Everything transitory is but an image.
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I have possessed that heart, that noble soul, in whose presence I seemed to be more than I really was, because I was all that I could be.
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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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Every day I observe more and more the folly of judging of others by ourselves; and I have so much trouble with myself, and my own heart is in such constant agitation, that I am well content to let others pursue their own course, if they only allow me the same privilege.
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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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What I possess, seems far away to me, and what is gone becomes reality.
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I treat my heart like a sick child and gratify its every fancy.
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And all must follow in my wake.
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One never goes so far as when one doesn’t know where one is going.
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Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it!
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We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.
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A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul.
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In the colorful reflection we have what is life.
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There are two things children should get from their parents: roots and wings.
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On top of the world, or in the depths of despair.
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