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One of the hardest things about not having someone around anymore who you used to look up to is knowing that there’s so much more left you had to learn from them.
It is the most foolish of all errors for young people of good intelligence to imagine that they will forfeit their originality if they acknowledge truth already acknowledged by others.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Maxims and Reflections
(via philosophybits)
(via philosophybits)
“If we treat people as they are, we make them worse. If we treat people as they ought to be, we help them become what they are capable of becoming.”
— Haim Ginott
“Beautiful, you said. You said I was beautiful, and when you said it, I was.”
— Sandra Cisneros, from Woman at Hollering Creek: Stories; “Never Marry a Mexican”
“When you are your own best friend, you don’t endlessly seek out relationships, friendships, and validation from the wrong sources because you realize that the only approval and validation you need is your own.”
— Mandy Hale
