What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.

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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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As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.

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It's true that nothing in this world makes us so necessary to others as the affection we have for them.

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Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.

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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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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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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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All theory is gray, my friend. But forever green is the tree of life.

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If you've never eaten while crying you don t know what life tastes like.

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