Circumstance does not make me, it reveals me.
WILLIAM JAMESIf merely ‘feeling good’ could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.
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Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.
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Everything which is demanded is by that fact a good.
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Man can change his life simply by changing his attitude.
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Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.
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With mere good intentions hell is proverbially paved.
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To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.
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There can be no existence of evil as a force to the healthy-minded individual.
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Our view of the world is truly shaped by what we decide to hear.
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Owing to the fact that all experience is a process, no point of view can ever be the last one
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To know an object is to lead to it through a context which the world provides
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The most peculiar social self which one is apt to have is in the mind of the person one is in love with.
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The union of the mathematician with the poet, fervor with measure, passion with correctness, this surely is the ideal.
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Lives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or being.
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It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.
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The power to move the world is in the subconcious mind
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