It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.
WILLIAM JAMESJust 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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What would be better for us to believe!’ This sounds very like a definition of truth
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Asceticism may be a mere expression of organic hardihood, disgusted with too much ease.
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There can be no difference anywhere that does not make a difference somewhere.
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There can be no final truth in ethics any more than in physics, until the last man has had his experience and said his say.
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No one sees further into a generalization than his own knowledge of detail extends.
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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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Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive.
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The intellectual life of man consists almost wholly in his substitution of conceptual order for the perceptual order in which his experience originally comes.
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Man lives in only one small room of the enormous house of his consciousness.
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Procrastination is attitude’s natural assassin. There’s nothing so fatiguing as an uncompleted task
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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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Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
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No living person is sunk so low as not to be imitated by somebody.
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Objective evidence and certitude are doubtless very fine ideals to play with, but where on this moonlit and dream-visited planet are they found?
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When thoughts do not neutralize an undesirable emotion, action will.
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