Everybody wants to be somebody, but nobody wants to grow.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEOn top of the world, or in the depths of despair.
More Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.
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The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers & cities; but to know someone who thinks & feels with us, & who, though distant, is close to us in spirit, this makes the earth for us an inhabited garden.
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Behaviour is a mirror in which every one displays his own image.
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What is uttered from the heart alone will win the heart of others to your own.
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Leap and the net will appear.
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If I love you, what business is it of yours?
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There are two things children should get from their parents: roots and wings.
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Too many parents make life hard for their children by trying, too zealously, to make it easy for them.
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I wait for the morning of my tears.
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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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Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it!
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We usually lost today because there has been a yesterday, and tomorrow is coming.
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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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For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him, he must regard himself as greater than he is.
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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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