I love those who yearn for the impossible.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEToo many parents make life hard for their children by trying, too zealously, to make it easy for them.
More Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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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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I have possessed that heart, that noble soul, in whose presence I seemed to be more than I really was, because I was all that I could be.
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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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Every day one should at least hear one little song, read one good poem, see one fine painting and – if at all possible – speak a few sensible words.
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He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.
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Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen.
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The intelligent man finds everything laughable, the sensible man hardly anything.
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Do not give in too much to feelings. A overly sensitive heart is an unhappy possession on this shaky earth.
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Remember to live.
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By seeking and blundering we learn.
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We know accurately only when we know little; doubt grows with knowledge.
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A person hears only what they understand.
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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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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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