Difficulties increase the nearer we get to the goal.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHETreat 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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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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I love those who yearn for the impossible.
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One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.
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If I love you, what business is it of yours?
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Doubt can only be removed by action.
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Behaviour is a mirror in which every one displays his own image.
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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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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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Night is the other half of life, and the better half.
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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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Nothing shows a man’s character more than what he laughs at.
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Everybody wants to be somebody, but nobody wants to grow.
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I have possessed that heart, that noble soul, in whose presence I seemed to be more than I really was, because I was all that I could be.
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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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What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
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