Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it!
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEBe above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it!
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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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Do not give in too much to feelings. A overly sensitive heart is an unhappy possession on this shaky earth.
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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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The greatest evil that can befall man is that he should come to think ill of himself.
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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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I treat my heart like a sick child and gratify its every fancy.
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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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Is this the destiny of man? Is he only happy before he has acquired his reason or after he has lost it?
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Everybody wants to be somebody, but nobody wants to grow.
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If I love you, what business is it of yours?
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Remember to live.
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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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Too many parents make life hard for their children by trying, too zealously, to make it easy for them.
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And all must follow in my wake.
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There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
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