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.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEOblivion is full of people who allow the opinions of others to overrule their belief in themselves.
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When scholars study a thing, they strive to kill it first, if it’s alive; then they have the parts and they’ve lost the whole, for the link that’s missing was the living soul.
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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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Too many parents make life hard for their children by trying, too zealously, to make it easy for them.
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I love those who yearn for the impossible.
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To be pleased with one’s limits is a wretched state.
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Oblivion is full of people who allow the opinions of others to overrule their belief in themselves.
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If I love you, what business is it of yours?
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Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it!
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A person hears only what they understand.
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Doubt can only be removed by action.
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The intelligent man finds everything laughable, the sensible man hardly anything.
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Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.
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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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What is uttered from the heart alone will win the heart of others to your own.
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As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
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