We want all our friends to tell us our bad qualities; it is only the particular ass that does so whom we can’t tolerate.
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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When thoughts do not neutralize an undesirable emotion, action will.
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The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
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Mankind’s common instinct for reality has always held the world to be essentially a theatre for heroism.
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There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood bu those who hear it.
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He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed.
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The emotions aren’t always immediately subject to reason, but they are always immediately subject to action.
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Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive.
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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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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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The true’to put it very briefly, is only the expedient in the way of our thinking, just as ‘the right’ is only the expedient in the way of our behaving.
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Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being.
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Circumstance does not make me, it reveals me.
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The God of many men is little more than their court of appeal against the damnatory judgment passed on their failures by the opinion of the world.
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There can be no existence of evil as a force to the healthy-minded individual.
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The total possible consciousness may be split into parts which co-exist but mutually ignore each other.
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