Effort is the one strictly undervalued and original contribution we make to this world.
WILLIAM JAMESOur intelligence cannot wall itself up alive, like a pupa in a chrysalis. It must at any cost keep on speaking terms with the universe that engendered it.
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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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Mankind’s common instinct for reality has always held the world to be essentially a theatre for heroism.
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The first lecture in psychology that I ever heard was the first I ever gave.
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Lives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or being.
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A paradise of inward tranquility seems to be faith’s usual result.
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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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A sense of humor is just common sense dancing.
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We hear the words we have spoken, feel our own blow as we give it, or read in the bystander’s eyes the success or failure of our conduct.
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Where is it, this present? It has melted in our grasp, fled ere we could touch it, gone in the instant of becoming.
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In the matter of belief, we are all extreme conservatives.
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Genius is the capacity for seeing relationships where lesser men see none.
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The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
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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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Religion . . . shall mean for us the feelings, acts and experiences of individual men in their solitude.
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[Religion is] the attempt to be in harmony with an unseen order of things.
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