Mankind’s common instinct for reality has always held the world to be essentially a theatre for heroism.
WILLIAM JAMESTo some of us the thought of God is like a sort of quiet music playing in the background of the mind.
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The most peculiar social self which one is apt to have is in the mind of the person one is in love with.
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Lives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or being.
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It seems the natural thing for us to listen whilst the Europeans talk.
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A sense of humor is just common sense dancing.
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There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.
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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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If you want to change your life, do it flamboyantly and start immediately.
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You must bring out of each word its practical cash-value, set it at work within the stream of your experience.
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To improve the golden moment of opportunity, and catch the good that is within our reach, is the great art of life.
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We are thinking beings, and we cannot exclude the intellect from participating in any of our functions.
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To give up pretensions is as blessed a relief as to get them ratified.
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Focus on increasing service. Becoming great where you are. Pile in the wood. The heat will follow.
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The difference between objective and subjective extension is one of relation to a context solely.
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Every individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony.
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The drunken consciousness is one bit of the mystic consciousness, and our total opinion of it must find its place in our opinion of that larger whole.
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