Goethe Knew What's Up

“We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.”

“The way you see people is the way you treat them, and the way you treat them is what they become.”

“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.” 

 “Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it!”

“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.”

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

“As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.”
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Faust: First Part 

“A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul.” 

“One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.”
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship