A word spoken is a terrible thing when it suddenly utters what the heart has long allowed.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEIf 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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The greatest evil that can befall man is that he should come to think ill of himself.
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We all of us live upon the past, and through the past we are destroyed.
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As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
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The suffering may be moral or physical; and in my opinion it is just as absurd to call a man a coward who destroys himself, as to call a man a coward who dies of a malignant fever.
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I love those who yearn for the impossible.
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The deed is everything; the fame is nothing.
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I have possessed that heart, that noble soul, in whose presence I seemed to be more than I really was, because I was all that I could be.
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What I possess, seems far away to me, and what is gone becomes reality.
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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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If any man wish to write in a clear style, let him be first clear in his thoughts; and if any would write in a noble style, let him first possess a noble soul.
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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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Who is the happiest of men? He who values the merits of others, and in their pleasure takes joy, even as though ’twere his own.
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There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.
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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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There are two things children should get from their parents: roots and wings.
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