To improve the golden moment of opportunity, and catch the good that is within our reach, is the great art of life.
WILLIAM JAMESThe most peculiar social self which one is apt to have is in the mind of the person one is in love with.
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A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.
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Deepest principle of human nature is to be appreciated.
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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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You may not get everything you dream about, but you will never get anything you don’t dream about.
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A new opinion counts as true just in proportion as it gratifies the individual’s desire to assimilate the novel in his experience to his beliefs in stock
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A man of sense is never discouraged by difficulties; he redoubles his industry and his diligence, he perseveres and infallibly prevails at last.
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A new idea is first condemned as ridiculous and then dismissed as trivial, until finally, it becomes what everybody knows.
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It is art that makes life, and I know of no substitute whatsoever for the force and beauty of its process.
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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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It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.
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Pretend what we may, the whole man within us is at work when we form our philosophical opinions.
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But facts are facts, and if we only get enough of them theyare sure to combine.
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Truth happens to an idea
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The sovereign cure for worry is prayer.
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The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.
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