Circumstance does not make me, it reveals me.
WILLIAM JAMESBelieve that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
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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 discovery of the power of our thoughts will prove to be the most important discovery of our time
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The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
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No bell in us tolls to let us know for certain when truth is in our grasp.
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At bottom, the whole concern of religion is with the manner of our acceptance of the universe.
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A new position of responsibility will usually show a man to be a far stronger creature than was supposed.
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Procrastination is attitude’s natural assassin. There’s nothing so fatiguing as an uncompleted task
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If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.
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The impulse to take life strivingly is indestructible in the race.
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Truth for us is simply a collective name for verification processes
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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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The most immutable barrier in nature is between one man’s thoughts and another’s.
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[T]here is very little difference between one person and another, but what little difference ther eis, is very important.
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No one sees further into a generalization than his own knowledge of detail extends.
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Pure experience’ is the name I gave to the immediate flux of life which furnishes the material to our later reflection with its conceptual categories.
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