#selves

Unlike grown ups, children have little need to deceive themselves. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#deceive #grown #grown ups #little #need

No one has ever learned fully to know themselves. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#fully #know #learned #themselves

We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#deceived #never #ourselves

Which government is the best? The one that teaches us to govern ourselves. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#govern #government #ourselves #teaches #us

A person places themselves on a level with the ones they praise. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#ones #person #places #praise #themselves

But once you are in that field, emotional intelligence emerges as a much stronger predictor of who will be most successful, because it is how we handle ourselves in our relationships that determines how well we do once we are in a given job. ↗

— Daniel Goleman

#determines #emerges #emotional #field #given

Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists... When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence. ↗

— Edmond de Goncourt

#been #begin #book #each #exists

When I write now I do not invent situation, characters, or actions, but rather structures and discursive forms, textual groupings which are combined according to secret affinities among themselves, as in architecture or the plastic arts. ↗

— Juan Goytisolo

#actions #affinities #among #architecture #arts

Teach success before teaching responsibility. Teach them to believe in themselves. Teach them to think, 'I'm not stupid'. No child wants to fail. Everyone wants to succeed. ↗

— Al Green

#believe #child #everyone #fail #i

Somebody who's really comfortable with who she is and doesn't care what other people think. I like women who are really strong and were brought up to be comfortable with themselves and respect themselves. ↗

— Brian Austin Green

#care #comfortable #i #like #other