Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it!
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEIf you’ve never eaten while crying you don’t know what life tastes like.
More Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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By seeking and blundering we learn.
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Instruction does much, but encouragement everything.
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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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What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
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What is uttered from the heart alone will win the heart of others to your own.
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Two souls, alas, are housed within my breast, and each will wrestle for the mastery there.
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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.
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Love does not dominate; it cultivates.
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Remember to live.
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He who cannot draw on three thousand years is living from hand to mouth.
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If I love you, what business is it of yours?
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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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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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To be pleased with one’s limits is a wretched state.
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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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