Time itself comes in drops.
WILLIAM JAMESTruth, as any dictionary will tell you, is a property of certain of our ideas. It means their agreement, as falsity means their disagreement, with reality.
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Truth, as any dictionary will tell you, is a property of certain of our ideas. It means their agreement, as falsity means their disagreement, with reality.
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What would be better for us to believe!’ This sounds very like a definition of truth
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Earnestness means willingness to live with energy, though energy bring pain.
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Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.
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For morality life is a war, and the service of the highest is a sort of cosmic patriotism which also calls for volunteers.
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Man lives in only one small room of the enormous house of his consciousness.
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We are thinking beings, and we cannot exclude the intellect from participating in any of our functions.
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If you want to change your life, do it flamboyantly and start immediately.
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Tension is a habit. Relaxing is a habit. Bad habits can be broken, good habits formed.
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New habits can be launched.
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Just for today I will exercise my soul in three ways: I will do somebody a good turn and not get found out. I will do at least two things I don’t want to do
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The discovery of the power of our thoughts will prove to be the most important discovery of our time
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Man can change his life simply by changing his attitude.
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Both thought and feeling are determinants of conduct, and the same conduct may be determined either by feeling or by thought.
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Real culture lives by sympathies and admirations, not by dislikes and disdains; under all misleading wrappings it pounces unerringly upon the human core.
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