A new position of responsibility will usually show a man to be a far stronger creature than was supposed.
WILLIAM JAMESWe with our lives are like islands in the sea, or like trees in the forest… But the trees also commingle their roots in the darkness underground.
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It seems the natural thing for us to listen whilst the Europeans talk.
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To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.
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Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
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Most men have a good memory for facts connected with their own pursuits.
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Earnestness means willingness to live with energy, though energy bring pain.
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To some of us the thought of God is like a sort of quiet music playing in the background of the mind.
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There’s nothing so absurd that if you repeat it often enough, people will believe it.
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The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
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We with our lives are like islands in the sea, or like trees in the forest… But the trees also commingle their roots in the darkness underground.
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If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.
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Man, whatever else he may be, is primarily a practical being, whose mind is given him to aid in adapting him to this world’s life
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Lives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or being.
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Everything which is demanded is by that fact a good.
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Pure experience’ is the name I gave to the immediate flux of life which furnishes the material to our later reflection with its conceptual categories.
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If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.
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