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 GOETHETo 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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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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We all of us live upon the past, and through the past we are destroyed.
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Few people have the imagination for reality.
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In happy ignorance, I sighed for a world I did not know, where I hoped to find every pleasure and enjoyment which my heart could desire; and now, on my return from that wide world, how many disappointed hopes and unsuccessful plans have I brought back!
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There are two things children should get from their parents: roots and wings.
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On top of the world, or in the depths of despair.
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Remember to live.
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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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I wait for the morning of my tears.
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Too many parents make life hard for their children by trying, too zealously, to make it easy for them.
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Know thyself? If I knew myself, I’d run away.
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Misunderstandings and neglect occasion more mischief in the world than malice and wickedness.
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We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.
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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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What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.
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