Give your dreams all you’ve got, and you’ll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you.
WILLIAM JAMESAll natural happiness thus seems infected with a contradiction. The breath of the sepulchre surrounds it.
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The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.
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There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.
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In business for yourself, not by yourself.
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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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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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History is a bath of blood.
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To improve the golden moment of opportunity, and catch the good that is within our reach, is the great art of life.
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The most immutable barrier in nature is between one man’s thoughts and another’s.
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Individuality is founded in feeling
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Anything you may hold firmly in your imagination can be yours.
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We forget that every good that is worth possessing must be paid for in strokes of daily effort.
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Our faith is faith in someone else’s faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.
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As long as there are postmen, life will have zest.
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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.
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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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