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 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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I laugh at my heart, and do its will.
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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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We usually lost today because there has been a yesterday, and tomorrow is coming.
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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 is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing.
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We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.
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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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Every day one should at least hear one little song, read one good poem, see one fine painting and – if at all possible – speak a few sensible words.
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The rich want good wine, the poor, plenty of wine.
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The highest goal that man can achieve is amazement.
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The deed is everything; the fame is nothing.
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Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward. They may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.
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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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If I love you, what business is it of yours?
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We all of us live upon the past, and through the past we are destroyed.
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