Let everything you do be done as if it makes a difference.
WILLIAM JAMESThe attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly.
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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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Once you accept an idea, it’s an idea whose time has come.
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[Religion is] the attempt to be in harmony with an unseen order of things.
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To neglect the wise sayings of great thinkers is to deny ourselves the truest education.
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No living person is sunk so low as not to be imitated by somebody.
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Impulse without reason is enough, and reason without impulse is a poor makeshift.
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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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Truth for us is simply a collective name for verification processes
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Our beliefs and our attention are the same fact.
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The general law is that no mental modification ever occurs which is not accompanied or followed by a bodily change.
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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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Wisdom is learning what to overlook.
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A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.
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It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.
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The deepest hunger in human beings is the desire to be appreciated.
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