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It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.

William James

Our view of the world is truly shaped by what we decide to hear.
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Decide Shaped Views World
Modern man . . . has not ceased to be credulous . . . the need to believe haunts him.
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Believe Men Needs
To consider hypotheses is surely always better than to dogmatize ins blaue hinein
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Dogmatize Hypothesis Truth
The total possible consciousness may be split into parts which co-exist but mutually ignore each other.
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Consciousness May Splits
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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Islands Roots Sea Underground
Tension is a habit. Relaxing is a habit. Bad habits can be broken, good habits formed.
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Broken Funny Habit
[T]here is very little difference between one person and another, but what little difference ther eis, is very important.
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Differences Important Personality
The impulse to take life strivingly is indestructible in the race.
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Free Race Vagueness Will
An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.
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Ethics Philosophical Quality
So to feel brave, act as if we were brave, use all our will to that end…and a courage-fit will very likely replace the fit of fear.
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Anticipation Brave Use
All of our life is but a mass of small habits – practical, emotional, intellectual and spiritual – that bear us irresistibly toward our destiny.
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Destiny Military Spiritual
A paradise of inward tranquility seems to be faith’s usual result.
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Inward Paradise Usual
How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.
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Happiness Laughter Men
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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Becoming Gone Instant
A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.
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Life Stay Strong Ties
He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed.
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Encouragement Encouraging Inspirational

It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.

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