Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.
WILLIAM JAMESThere is but one cause of human failure. And that is man’s lack of faith in his true Self.
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But facts are facts, and if we only get enough of them theyare sure to combine.
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You can alter your life by altering the state of your mind.
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A sense of humor is just common sense dancing.
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Our view of the world is truly shaped by what we decide to hear.
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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 world is all the richer for having a devil in it, so long as we keep our foot upon his neck.
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Every individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony.
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No living person is sunk so low as not to be imitated by somebody.
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Faith is synonymous with working hypothesis.
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I don’t sing because I’m happy; I’m happy because I sing.
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If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.
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So it is with children who learn to read fluently and well: They begin to take flight into whole new worlds as effortlessly as young birds take to the sky.
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Man alone of all the creatures of earth can change his own pattern. Man alone is the architect of his own destiny.
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On pragmatistic principles, if the hypothesis of God works satisfactorily in the widest sense of the word, it is true.
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There can be no difference anywhere that does not make a difference somewhere.
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