It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.
WILLIAM JAMESAll religions begin with the cry Help.
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When you have broken the reality into concepts you never can reconstruct it in its wholeness.
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The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.
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Where is it, this present? It has melted in our grasp, fled ere we could touch it, gone in the instant of becoming.
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Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
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A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.
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No one sees further into a generalization than his own knowledge of detail extends.
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The emotions aren’t always immediately subject to reason, but they are always immediately subject to action.
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The union of the mathematician with the poet, fervor with measure, passion with correctness, this surely is the ideal.
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Our view of the world is truly shaped by what we decide to hear.
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Truth is something that happens to an idea.
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We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.
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There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man’s lack of faith in his true Self.
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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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When once a decision is reached and execution is the order of the day, dismiss absolutely all responsibility and care about the outcome.
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To consider hypotheses is surely always better than to dogmatize ins blaue hinein
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