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 GOETHEEverybody wants to be somebody, but nobody wants to grow.
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What I possess, seems far away to me, and what is gone becomes reality.
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The rich want good wine, the poor, plenty of wine.
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Leap and the net will appear.
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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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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 frightful than ignorance in action.
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Oblivion is full of people who allow the opinions of others to overrule their belief in themselves.
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One never goes so far as when one doesn’t know where one is going.
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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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Every situation–nay, every moment–is of infinite worth; for it is the representative of a whole eternity.
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Love does not dominate; it cultivates.
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There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.
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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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None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.
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What a torment it is to see so much loveliness passing and repassing before us, and yet not dare to lay hold of it!
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