Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.
WILLIAM JAMESBelieve that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
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Lives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or being.
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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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It is art that makes life, and I know of no substitute whatsoever for the force and beauty of its process.
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Man alone of all the creatures of earth can change his own pattern. Man alone is the architect of his own destiny.
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Fear of life in one form or another is the great thing to exorcise.
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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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Circumstance does not make me, it reveals me.
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Truth is something that happens to an idea.
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Our intelligence cannot wall itself up alive, like a pupa in a chrysalis. It must at any cost keep on speaking terms with the universe that engendered it.
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Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.
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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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The union of the mathematician with the poet, fervor with measure, passion with correctness, this surely is the ideal.
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Give your dreams all you’ve got, and you’ll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you.
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Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being.
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Man lives in only one small room of the enormous house of his consciousness.
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