Experience, as we know, has a way of boiling over, and making us correct our present formulas.
WILLIAM JAMESOur faith is faith in someone else’s faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.
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When you have broken the reality into concepts you never can reconstruct it in its wholeness.
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Focus on increasing service. Becoming great where you are. Pile in the wood. The heat will follow.
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Faith is synonymous with working hypothesis.
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The great thing, then, in all education, is to make our nervous system our ally instead of our enemy.
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You can alter your life by altering the state of your mind.
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To neglect the wise sayings of great thinkers is to deny ourselves the truest education.
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The deepest hunger in human beings is the desire to be appreciated.
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… the intellect, everywhere invasive, shows everywhere its shallowing effect.
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That which is most personal, is most interesting.
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For the moment, what we attend to is reality.
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Truth is something that happens to an idea.
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Individuality is founded in feeling
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Our view of the world is truly shaped by what we decide to hear.
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A new position of responsibility will usually show a man to be a far stronger creature than was supposed.
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In business for yourself, not by yourself.
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