Most men have a good memory for facts connected with their own pursuits.
WILLIAM JAMES[Religion is] the attempt to be in harmony with an unseen order of things.
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Earnestness means willingness to live with energy, though energy bring pain.
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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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Lives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or being.
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He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed.
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Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day.
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Man can change his life simply by changing his attitude.
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It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.
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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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All religions begin with the cry Help.
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Individuality is founded in feeling
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The difference between objective and subjective extension is one of relation to a context solely.
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There is but one unconditional commandment … to bring about the very largest total universe of good which we can see.
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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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In business for yourself, not by yourself.
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Wisdom is learning what to overlook.
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