How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.
WILLIAM JAMESSo our self-feeling in this world depends entirely on what we back ourselves to be and do.
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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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A man of sense is never discouraged by difficulties; he redoubles his industry and his diligence, he perseveres and infallibly prevails at last.
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A paradise of inward tranquility seems to be faith’s usual result.
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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’s nothing so absurd that if you repeat it often enough, people will believe it.
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The deepest human need is the need to be appreciated.
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So to feel brave, act as if we were brave, use all our will to that end…and a courage-fit will very likely replace the fit of fear.
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What would be better for us to believe!’ This sounds very like a definition of truth
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The difference between objective and subjective extension is one of relation to a context solely.
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We must be careful not to confuse data with the abstractions we use to analyse them.
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With mere good intentions hell is proverbially paved.
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So our self-feeling in this world depends entirely on what we back ourselves to be and do.
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Time itself comes in drops.
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One of the greatest discoveries of our time is that a man can alter the state of their life by altering the state of their mind.
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The ultimate test of what a truth means is the conduct it dictates or inspires.
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You must bring out of each word its practical cash-value, set it at work within the stream of your experience.
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Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.
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In business for yourself, not by yourself.
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A new idea is first condemned as ridiculous and then dismissed as trivial, until finally, it becomes what everybody knows.
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No living person is sunk so low as not to be imitated by somebody.
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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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We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.
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Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.
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For the moment, what we attend to is reality.
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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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[T]here is very little difference between one person and another, but what little difference ther eis, is very important.
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