It is art that makes life, and I know of no substitute whatsoever for the force and beauty of its process.
WILLIAM JAMESIt is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.
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Tension is a habit. Relaxing is a habit. Bad habits can be broken, good habits formed.
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Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.
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Religion . . . shall mean for us the feelings, acts and experiences of individual men in their solitude.
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The deepest longing in the human breast is the desire for appreciation.
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Our view of the world is truly shaped by what we decide to hear.
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Religious awe is the same organic thrill which we feel in a forest at twilight, or in a mountain gorge.
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We can change our circumstances by a mere change of our attitude.
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It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.
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No one sees further into a generalization than his own knowledge of detail extends.
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Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.
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There is but one unconditional commandment … to bring about the very largest total universe of good which we can see.
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Time itself comes in drops.
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The impulse to take life strivingly is indestructible in the race.
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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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The lunatic’s visions of horror are all drawn from the material of daily fact.
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