Earnestness means willingness to live with energy, though energy bring pain.
WILLIAM JAMESWhere quality is the thing sought after, the thing of supreme quality is cheap, whatever the price one has to pay for it.
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If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.
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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 minute a man ceases to grow, no matter what his years, that minute he begins to be old.
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Individuality is founded in feeling
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We with our lives are like islands in the sea, or like trees in the forest… But the trees also commingle their roots in the darkness underground.
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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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Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.
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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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Truth is something that happens to an idea.
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There can be no difference anywhere that does not make a difference somewhere.
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Pretend what we may, the whole man within us is at work when we form our philosophical opinions.
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Where quality is the thing sought after, the thing of supreme quality is cheap, whatever the price one has to pay for it.
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The question of free will is insoluble on strictly psychological grounds.
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If you want to change your life, do it flamboyantly and start immediately.
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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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