An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.
WILLIAM JAMESIf you want a quality, act as if you already had it.
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When you have broken the reality into concepts you never can reconstruct it in its wholeness.
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Anything you may hold firmly in your imagination can be yours.
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Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
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Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.
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Experience, as we know, has a way of boiling over, and making us correct our present formulas.
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Genius is the capacity for seeing relationships where lesser men see none.
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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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The education of attention would be an education par excellence
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I myself believe that the evidence for God lies primarily in inner personal experiences.
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The teachers of this country, one may say, have its future in their hands.
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Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.
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If you want to change your life, do it flamboyantly and start immediately.
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Every individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony.
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The question of free will is insoluble on strictly psychological grounds.
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There can be no existence of evil as a force to the healthy-minded individual.
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