Where quality is the thing sought after, the thing of supreme quality is cheap, whatever the price one has to pay for it.
WILLIAM JAMESReligious awe is the same organic thrill which we feel in a forest at twilight, or in a mountain gorge.
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In business for yourself, not by yourself.
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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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True to her inveterate habit, rationalism reverts to ‘principles,’ and thinks that when an abstraction once is named, we own an oracular solution.
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The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.
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It is art that makes life, and I know of no substitute whatsoever for the force and beauty of its process.
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An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.
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Where is it, this present? It has melted in our grasp, fled ere we could touch it, gone in the instant of becoming.
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Our view of the world is truly shaped by what we decide to hear.
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Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being.
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You can alter your life by altering the state of your mind.
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We are stereotyped creatures, imitators and copiers of our past selves.
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Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
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History is a bath of blood.
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Just for today I will exercise my soul in three ways: I will do somebody a good turn and not get found out. I will do at least two things I don’t want to do
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If you give appreciation to people, you win their goodwill. But more important than that, practicing this philosophy has made a different person of me.
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