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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.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

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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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Heart Myself See
Love does not dominate; it cultivates.
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Love Perspective
To be pleased with one’s limits is a wretched state.
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Limitation Oneself
What I possess, seems far away to me, and what is gone becomes reality.
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Myself Philosophy Reality
Every day I observe more and more the folly of judging of others by ourselves; and I have so much trouble with myself, and my own heart is in such constant agitation, that I am well content to let others pursue their own course, if they only allow me the same privilege.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

Heart Judgement Myself Ourselves Pursue
You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.
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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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There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
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Danger Imagination Taste
Do not give in too much to feelings. A overly sensitive heart is an unhappy possession on this shaky earth.
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Feeling Heart Philosophy
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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Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.
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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.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

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A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul.
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The deed is everything; the fame is nothing.
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Fame One Liner Worth
There is no past we can bring back by longing for it. There is only an eternal now that builds and creates out of the past something new and better.
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