Give your dreams all you’ve got, and you’ll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you.
WILLIAM JAMESThe prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.
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A new opinion counts as true just in proportion as it gratifies the individual’s desire to assimilate the novel in his experience to his beliefs in stock
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The impulse to take life strivingly is indestructible in the race.
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The ultimate test of what a truth means is the conduct it dictates or inspires.
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Touch is the alpha and omega of affection.
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Circumstance does not make me, it reveals me.
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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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Truth happens to an idea
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A new position of responsibility will usually show a man to be a far stronger creature than was supposed.
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The emotions aren’t always immediately subject to reason, but they are always immediately subject to action.
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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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Facts’ are the bounds of human knowledge, set for it, not by it.
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Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive.
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If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.
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We are proud of a human nature that could be so passionately extreme, but we shrink from advising others to follow the example.
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There can be no existence of evil as a force to the healthy-minded individual.
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