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.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEWe do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.
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Two souls, alas, are housed within my breast, and each will wrestle for the mastery there.
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And all must follow in my wake.
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Love does not dominate; it cultivates.
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The human race is a monotonous affair. Most people spend the greatest part of their time working in order to live, and what little freedom remains so fills them with fear that they seek out any and every means to be rid of it.
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A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.
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Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it!
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None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.
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To be pleased with one’s limits is a wretched state.
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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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What I possess, seems far away to me, and what is gone becomes reality.
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One never goes so far as when one doesn’t know where one is going.
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What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.
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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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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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How often do I lull my seething blood to rest, for you have never seen anything so unsteady, so uncertain, as this heart.
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