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 GOETHEOne never goes so far as when one doesn’t know where one is going.
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Nothing is more dangerous than solitude.
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Remember to live.
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Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.
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Every reader, if he has a strong mind, reads himself into the book, and amalgamates his thoughts with those of the author.
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A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.
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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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Do not give in too much to feelings. A overly sensitive heart is an unhappy possession on this shaky earth.
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Behaviour is a mirror in which every one displays his own image.
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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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Every situation–nay, every moment–is of infinite worth; for it is the representative of a whole eternity.
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There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
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I have so much in me, and the feeling for her absorbs it all; I have so much, and without her it all comes to nothing.
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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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In the colorful reflection we have what is life.
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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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