The human race is a monotonous affair. Most people spend the greatest part of their time working in order to live, and what little freedom remains so fills them with fear that they seek out any and every means to be rid of it.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEThe intelligent man finds everything laughable, the sensible man hardly anything.
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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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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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And all must follow in my wake.
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Doubt can only be removed by action.
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He who cannot draw on three thousand years is living from hand to mouth.
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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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Instruction does much, but encouragement everything.
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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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Love does not dominate; it cultivates.
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There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.
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Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing.
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What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.
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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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I love those who yearn for the impossible.
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Remember to live.
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