Two souls, alas, are housed within my breast, and each will wrestle for the mastery there.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEThe 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.
More Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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I wait for the morning of my tears.
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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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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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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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He who cannot draw on three thousand years is living from hand to mouth.
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A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.
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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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We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.
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By seeking and blundering we learn.
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Love does not dominate; it cultivates.
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Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.
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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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Nothing is more dangerous than solitude.
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