Every individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony.
WILLIAM JAMESThe strenuous life tastes better
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The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.
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Everything which is demanded is by that fact a good.
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On pragmatistic principles, if the hypothesis of God works satisfactorily in the widest sense of the word, it is true.
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Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day.
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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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We may be in the Universe as dogs and cats are in our libraries, seeing the books and hearing the conversation, but having no inkling of the meaning of it all.
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There can be no final truth in ethics any more than in physics, until the last man has had his experience and said his say.
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Truth is something that happens to an idea.
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Success plus Self-esteem equals Pretensions.
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Truth, as any dictionary will tell you, is a property of certain of our ideas. It means their agreement, as falsity means their disagreement, with reality.
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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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It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.
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Genius is the capacity for seeing relationships where lesser men see none.
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Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
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If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.
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