Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEWhat a torment it is to see so much loveliness passing and repassing before us, and yet not dare to lay hold of it!
More Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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Nothing shows a man’s character more than what he laughs at.
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Know thyself? If I knew myself, I’d run away.
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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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We know accurately only when we know little; doubt grows with knowledge.
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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 you’ve never eaten while crying you don’t know what life tastes like.
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The limits of my language are the limits of my universe.
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What I possess, seems far away to me, and what is gone becomes reality.
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A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul.
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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 often feel that we lack something, and seem to see that very quality in someone else, promptly attributing all our own qualities to him too, and a kind of ideal contentment as well. And so the happy mortal is a model of complete perfection–which we have ourselves created.
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I love those who yearn for the impossible.
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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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Difficulties increase the nearer we get to the goal.
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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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