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 GOETHEThe highest goal that man can achieve is amazement.
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Everybody wants to be somebody, but nobody wants to grow.
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One can stand anything except a succession of ordinary days.
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Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever.
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We usually lost today because there has been a yesterday, and tomorrow is coming.
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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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And all must follow in my wake.
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To be loved for what one is, that is the greatest exception. The great majority love in others only what they lend him; their own selves, their version of him.
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Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing.
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Instruction does much, but encouragement everything.
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The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers & cities; but to know someone who thinks & feels with us, & who, though distant, is close to us in spirit, this makes the earth for us an inhabited garden.
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I love those who yearn for the impossible.
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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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What I possess, seems far away to me, and what is gone becomes reality.
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The highest goal that man can achieve is amazement.
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Night is the other half of life, and the better half.
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