Is this the destiny of man? Is he only happy before he has acquired his reason or after he has lost it?
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEThings which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.
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If you’ve never eaten while crying you don’t know what life tastes like.
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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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I laugh at my heart, and do its will.
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The deed is everything; the fame is nothing.
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There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.
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The rich want good wine, the poor, plenty of wine.
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What I possess, seems far away to me, and what is gone becomes reality.
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You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.
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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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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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A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul.
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Everybody wants to be somebody, but nobody wants to grow.
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Nothing is more dangerous than solitude.
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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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