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.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEHe is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.
More Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.
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Every situation–nay, every moment–is of infinite worth; for it is the representative of a whole eternity.
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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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Everything transitory is but an image.
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To think is easy. To act is hard. But the hardest thing in the world is to act in accordance with your thinking.
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There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
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Remember to live.
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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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To be pleased with one’s limits is a wretched state.
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How often do I lull my seething blood to rest, for you have never seen anything so unsteady, so uncertain, as this heart.
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Few people have the imagination for reality.
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Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing.
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I am not omniscient, but I know a lot.
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What I possess, seems far away to me, and what is gone becomes reality.
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When scholars study a thing, they strive to kill it first, if it’s alive; then they have the parts and they’ve lost the whole, for the link that’s missing was the living soul.
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