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 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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Do not give in too much to feelings. A overly sensitive heart is an unhappy possession on this shaky earth.
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To be pleased with one’s limits is a wretched state.
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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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Everybody wants to be somebody, but nobody wants to grow.
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In happy ignorance, I sighed for a world I did not know, where I hoped to find every pleasure and enjoyment which my heart could desire; and now, on my return from that wide world, how many disappointed hopes and unsuccessful plans have I brought back!
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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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The deed is everything; the fame is nothing.
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We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.
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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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Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward. They may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.
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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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Every situation–nay, every moment–is of infinite worth; for it is the representative of a whole eternity.
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Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever.
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In the colorful reflection we have what is life.
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What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
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