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.
WILLIAM JAMESThe strenuous life tastes better
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Once you accept an idea, it’s an idea whose time has come.
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Effort is the one strictly undervalued and original contribution we make to this world.
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Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
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To give up pretensions is as blessed a relief as to get them ratified.
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Lives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or being.
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Every individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony.
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The first lecture in psychology that I ever heard was the first I ever gave.
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It is very important that teachers should realize the importance of habit.
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You can alter your life by altering the state of your mind.
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To know an object is to lead to it through a context which the world provides
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Faith is synonymous with working hypothesis.
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Pretend what we may, the whole man within us is at work when we form our philosophical opinions.
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Time itself comes in drops.
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Democracy is still upon its trial. The civic genius of our people is its only bulwark.
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Habit is a second nature, or rather, it is ‘ten times nature’.
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