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 GOETHEWhat I possess, seems far away to me, and what is gone becomes reality.
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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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He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.
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Everything transitory is but an image.
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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 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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What is uttered from the heart alone will win the heart of others to your own.
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I laugh at my heart, and do its will.
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Who is the happiest of men? He who values the merits of others, and in their pleasure takes joy, even as though ’twere his own.
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I wait for the morning of my tears.
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By seeking and blundering we learn.
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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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The rich want good wine, the poor, plenty of wine.
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Everybody wants to be somebody, but nobody wants to grow.
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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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I treat my heart like a sick child and gratify its every fancy.
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