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.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEEvery day one should at least hear one little song, read one good poem, see one fine painting and – if at all possible – speak a few sensible words.
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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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Instruction does much, but encouragement everything.
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He who cannot draw on three thousand years is living from hand to mouth.
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What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
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Love does not dominate; it cultivates.
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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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Do not give in too much to feelings. A overly sensitive heart is an unhappy possession on this shaky earth.
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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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Two souls, alas, are housed within my breast, and each will wrestle for the mastery there.
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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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Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen.
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Doubt can only be removed by action.
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A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.
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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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