None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEThe greatest evil that can befall man is that he should come to think ill of himself.
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For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him, he must regard himself as greater than he is.
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The deed is everything; the fame is nothing.
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Everybody wants to be somebody, but nobody wants to grow.
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What I possess, seems far away to me, and what is gone becomes reality.
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In happy ignorance, I sighed for a world I did not know, where I hoped to find every pleasure and enjoyment which my heart could desire; and now, on my return from that wide world, how many disappointed hopes and unsuccessful plans have I brought back!
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If you’ve never eaten while crying you don’t know what life tastes like.
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As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
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Every reader, if he has a strong mind, reads himself into the book, and amalgamates his thoughts with those of the author.
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If I love you, what business is it of yours?
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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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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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Love does not dominate; it cultivates.
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To think is easy. To act is hard. But the hardest thing in the world is to act in accordance with your thinking.
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If any man wish to write in a clear style, let him be first clear in his thoughts; and if any would write in a noble style, let him first possess a noble soul.
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One never goes so far as when one doesn’t know where one is going.
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