The question of free will is insoluble on strictly psychological grounds.
WILLIAM JAMESThe strenuous life tastes better
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To improve the golden moment of opportunity, and catch the good that is within our reach, is the great art of life.
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Anything you may hold firmly in your imagination can be yours.
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When thoughts do not neutralize an undesirable emotion, action will.
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But facts are facts, and if we only get enough of them theyare sure to combine.
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Our view of the world is truly shaped by what we decide to hear.
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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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Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.
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Truth, as any dictionary will tell you, is a property of certain of our ideas. It means their agreement, as falsity means their disagreement, with reality.
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There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.
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Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
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We hear the words we have spoken, feel our own blow as we give it, or read in the bystander’s eyes the success or failure of our conduct.
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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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With mere good intentions hell is proverbially paved.
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The deepest hunger in human beings is the desire to be appreciated.
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Owing to the fact that all experience is a process, no point of view can ever be the last one
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