Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.
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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On top of the world, or in the depths of despair.
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For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him, he must regard himself as greater than he is.
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He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.
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Everything transitory is but an image.
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Everybody wants to be somebody, but nobody wants to grow.
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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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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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None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.
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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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All that is transitory is but a metaphor.
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Night is the other half of life, and the better half.
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Know thyself? If I knew myself, I’d run away.
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Difficulties increase the nearer we get to the goal.
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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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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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Love does not dominate; it cultivates.
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I laugh at my heart, and do its will.
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In the colorful reflection we have what is life.
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A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.
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The heights charm us, but the steps do not; with the mountain in our view we love to walk the plains.
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Every reader, if he has a strong mind, reads himself into the book, and amalgamates his thoughts with those of the author.
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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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The deed is everything; the fame is nothing.
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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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A person hears only what they understand.
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A word spoken is a terrible thing when it suddenly utters what the heart has long allowed.
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