Treat people the way they are and they will stay that way. Treat people the way they can become and they will become that way.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheChildren, love one another, and if that is not possible-at least try to put up with one another.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheWe often feel that we lack something, and seem to see that very quality in someone else, promptly attributing all our own qualities to him too, and a kind of ideal contentment as well. And so the happy mortal is a model of complete perfection--which we have ourselves created.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe