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If your treat an individual… as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be.

It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.

People are like dirt. They can either nourish you and help you grow as a person or they can stunt your growth and make you wilt and die.

Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.

It’s only through listening that you learn, and I never want to stop learning.

Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.

If you would lift me up you must be on higher ground.

We know what we are, but know not what we may be.

It is a sign of contraction of the mind when it is content, or of weariness. A spirited mind never stops within itself; it is always aspiring and going beyond its strength.

The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another; and his humblest hour is when he compares the volume as it is with what he vowed to make it.