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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 Goethe

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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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One never goes so far as when one doesn’t know where one is going.
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What is uttered from the heart alone will win the heart of others to your own.
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Instruction does much, but encouragement everything.
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He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.
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In the colorful reflection we have what is life.
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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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Creation Happiness Himself Ideal Kind Ourselves Perfection Quality
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Character Himself Transformation
One can stand anything except a succession of ordinary days.
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Exception Oneself Ordinary
On top of the world, or in the depths of despair.
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The rich want good wine, the poor, plenty of wine.
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Choice Goodness Rich Wine
Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.
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A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.
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I have so much in me, and the feeling for her absorbs it all; I have so much, and without her it all comes to nothing.
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I laugh at my heart, and do its will.
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Heart Laughter Myself

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