Every situation–nay, every moment–is of infinite worth; for it is the representative of a whole eternity.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEYou can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.
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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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Difficulties increase the nearer we get to the goal.
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We often feel that we lack something, and seem to see that very quality in someone else, promptly attributing all our own qualities to him too, and a kind of ideal contentment as well. And so the happy mortal is a model of complete perfection–which we have ourselves created.
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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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Few people have the imagination for reality.
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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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There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
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Behaviour is a mirror in which every one displays his own image.
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I am not omniscient, but I know a lot.
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Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen.
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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.
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Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing.
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A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.
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To be pleased with one’s limits is a wretched state.
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Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it!
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