Let everything you do be done as if it makes a difference.
WILLIAM JAMESSo to feel brave, act as if we were brave, use all our will to that end…and a courage-fit will very likely replace the fit of fear.
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To give up pretensions is as blessed a relief as to get them ratified.
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The question of free will is insoluble on strictly psychological grounds.
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The intellectual life of man consists almost wholly in his substitution of conceptual order for the perceptual order in which his experience originally comes.
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If you give appreciation to people, you win their goodwill. But more important than that, practicing this philosophy has made a different person of me.
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Religion is a monumental chapter in the history of human egotism.
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No bell in us tolls to let us know for certain when truth is in our grasp.
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Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.
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Modern man . . . has not ceased to be credulous . . . the need to believe haunts him.
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One of the greatest discoveries of our time is that a man can alter the state of their life by altering the state of their mind.
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Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.
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In business for yourself, not by yourself.
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The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly.
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We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.
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For the moment, what we attend to is reality.
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So to feel brave, act as if we were brave, use all our will to that end…and a courage-fit will very likely replace the fit of fear.
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