The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
WILLIAM JAMESMankind’s common instinct for reality has always held the world to be essentially a theatre for heroism.
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In business for yourself, not by yourself.
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Democracy is still upon its trial. The civic genius of our people is its only bulwark.
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With mere good intentions hell is proverbially paved.
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True to her inveterate habit, rationalism reverts to ‘principles,’ and thinks that when an abstraction once is named, we own an oracular solution.
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Man can alter his life by altering his thinking.
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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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Our view of the world is truly shaped by what we decide to hear.
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Wisdom is learning what to overlook.
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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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An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.
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The greatest weapon we have to combat stress is the ability to choose our thoughts.
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The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.
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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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I myself believe that the evidence for God lies primarily in inner personal experiences.
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You can alter your life by altering the state of your mind.
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