The impulse to take life strivingly is indestructible in the race.
WILLIAM JAMESIf 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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To consider hypotheses is surely always better than to dogmatize ins blaue hinein
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Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.
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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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Philosophy lives in words, but truth and fact well up into our lives in ways that exceed verbal formulation.
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But facts are facts, and if we only get enough of them theyare sure to combine.
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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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To change ones life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly.
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Man lives in only one small room of the enormous house of his consciousness.
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We must be careful not to confuse data with the abstractions we use to analyse them.
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With no attempt there can be no failure; with no failure no humiliation.
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There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.
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Anything you may hold firmly in your imagination can be yours.
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True ideas are those that we can assimilate, validate, corroborate, and verify. False ideas are those that we cannot
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The deepest hunger in human beings is the desire to be appreciated.
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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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