Our faith is faith in someone else’s faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.
WILLIAM JAMESMan 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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Every individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony.
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There’s nothing so absurd that if you repeat it often enough, people will believe it.
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The greatest weapon we have to combat stress is the ability to choose our thoughts.
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Philosophy lives in words, but truth and fact well up into our lives in ways that exceed verbal formulation.
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The teachers of this country, one may say, have its future in their hands.
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A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.
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All natural goods perish. Riches take wings; fame is a breath; love is a cheat; youth and health and pleasure vanish.
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The general law is that no mental modification ever occurs which is not accompanied or followed by a bodily change.
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Where quality is the thing sought after, the thing of supreme quality is cheap, whatever the price one has to pay for it.
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We may be in the Universe as dogs and cats are in our libraries, seeing the books and hearing the conversation, but having no inkling of the meaning of it all.
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Man can alter his life by altering his thinking.
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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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Lives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or being.
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The minute a man ceases to grow, no matter what his years, that minute he begins to be old.
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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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