An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.
WILLIAM JAMESThere is but one unconditional commandment … to bring about the very largest total universe of good which we can see.
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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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It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.
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The difference between objective and subjective extension is one of relation to a context solely.
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Let everything you do be done as if it makes a difference.
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The world is all the richer for having a devil in it, so long as we keep our foot upon his neck.
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There’s nothing so absurd that if you repeat it often enough, people will believe it.
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The discovery of the power of our thoughts will prove to be the most important discovery of our time
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You may not get everything you dream about, but you will never get anything you don’t dream about.
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A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.
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A man has as many social selves as there are individuals who recognize him.
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Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
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To change ones life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly.
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If merely ‘feeling good’ could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.
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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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Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day.
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