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 GOETHEBe above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it!
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Two souls, alas, are housed within my breast, and each will wrestle for the mastery there.
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Nothing is more dangerous than solitude.
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One never goes so far as when one doesn’t know where one is going.
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How often do I lull my seething blood to rest, for you have never seen anything so unsteady, so uncertain, as this heart.
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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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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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Instruction does much, but encouragement everything.
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We know accurately only when we know little; doubt grows with knowledge.
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What is uttered from the heart alone will win the heart of others to your own.
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If I love you, what business is it of yours?
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Difficulties increase the nearer we get to the goal.
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To be pleased with one’s limits is a wretched state.
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He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.
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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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Behaviour is a mirror in which every one displays his own image.
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