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 GoetheI hate every violent overthrow, because as much is destroyed as is gained by it.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheMagic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheA wife is a gift bestowed upon a man to reconcile him to the loss of paradise.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheAfter all, poets shouldn't be their own interpreters and shouldn't carefully dissect their poems into everyday prose; that would mean the end of being poets. Poets send their creations into the world, it is up to the reader, the aesthetician, and the critic to determine what they wanted to say with their creations.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe