Instruction does much, but encouragement everything.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEEvery 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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Is this the destiny of man? Is he only happy before he has acquired his reason or after he has lost it?
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The suffering may be moral or physical; and in my opinion it is just as absurd to call a man a coward who destroys himself, as to call a man a coward who dies of a malignant fever.
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By seeking and blundering we learn.
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Everything transitory is but an image.
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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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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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What a torment it is to see so much loveliness passing and repassing before us, and yet not dare to lay hold of it!
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Doubt can only be removed by action.
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If you’ve never eaten while crying you don’t know what life tastes like.
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Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.
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Everybody wants to be somebody, but nobody wants to grow.
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Remember to live.
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I laugh at my heart, and do its will.
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Two souls, alas, are housed within my breast, and each will wrestle for the mastery there.
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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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