A new position of responsibility will usually show a man to be a far stronger creature than was supposed.
WILLIAM JAMESTo 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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To know an object is to lead to it through a context which the world provides
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Faith is synonymous with working hypothesis.
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We with our lives are like islands in the sea, or like trees in the forest… But the trees also commingle their roots in the darkness underground.
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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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For the moment, what we attend to is reality.
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If merely ‘feeling good’ could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.
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Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
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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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When thoughts do not neutralize an undesirable emotion, action will.
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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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A new opinion counts as true just in proportion as it gratifies the individual’s desire to assimilate the novel in his experience to his beliefs in stock
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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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Habit is thus the enormous fly-wheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. It alone is what keeps us all within the bounds of ordinance.
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Give your dreams all you’ve got, and you’ll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you.
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Individuality is founded in feeling
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