Oblivion is full of people who allow the opinions of others to overrule their belief in themselves.
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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Every day I observe more and more the folly of judging of others by ourselves; and I have so much trouble with myself, and my own heart is in such constant agitation, that I am well content to let others pursue their own course, if they only allow me the same privilege.
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We know accurately only when we know little; doubt grows with knowledge.
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A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.
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The heights charm us, but the steps do not; with the mountain in our view we love to walk the plains.
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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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What a torment it is to see so much loveliness passing and repassing before us, and yet not dare to lay hold of it!
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Difficulties increase the nearer we get to the goal.
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Behaviour is a mirror in which every one displays his own image.
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All that is transitory is but a metaphor.
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There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.
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Two souls, alas, are housed within my breast, and each will wrestle for the mastery there.
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We usually lost today because there has been a yesterday, and tomorrow is coming.
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I love those who yearn for the impossible.
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To think is easy. To act is hard. But the hardest thing in the world is to act in accordance with your thinking.
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Night is the other half of life, and the better half.
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We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.
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None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.
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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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I wait for the morning of my tears.
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Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen.
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What I possess, seems far away to me, and what is gone becomes reality.
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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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Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever.
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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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And all must follow in my wake.
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