It is art that makes life, and I know of no substitute whatsoever for the force and beauty of its process.
WILLIAM JAMESJust for today I will exercise my soul in three ways: I will do somebody a good turn and not get found out. I will do at least two things I don’t want to do
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We must be careful not to confuse data with the abstractions we use to analyse them.
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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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For the moment, what we attend to is reality.
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Habit is a second nature, or rather, it is ‘ten times nature’.
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With no attempt there can be no failure; with no failure no humiliation.
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A man with no philosophy in him is the most inauspicious and unprofitable of all possible social mates.
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Religion is a monumental chapter in the history of human egotism.
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Our beliefs are really rules for action.
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What would be better for us to believe!’ This sounds very like a definition of truth
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We are proud of a human nature that could be so passionately extreme, but we shrink from advising others to follow the example.
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The sovereign cure for worry is prayer.
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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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The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
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A man has as many social selves as there are individuals who recognize him.
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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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