The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
WILLIAM JAMESWhen you have broken the reality into concepts you never can reconstruct it in its wholeness.
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Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
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For morality life is a war, and the service of the highest is a sort of cosmic patriotism which also calls for volunteers.
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Anything you may hold firmly in your imagination can be yours.
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The deepest human need is the need to be appreciated.
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All of our life is but a mass of small habits – practical, emotional, intellectual and spiritual – that bear us irresistibly toward our destiny.
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He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed.
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The deepest hunger in human beings is the desire to be appreciated.
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Owing to the fact that all experience is a process, no point of view can ever be the last one
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Truth, as any dictionary will tell you, is a property of certain of our ideas. It means their agreement, as falsity means their disagreement, with reality.
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Wisdom is learning what to overlook.
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It is very important that teachers should realize the importance of habit.
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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 emotions aren’t always immediately subject to reason, but they are always immediately subject to action.
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Every individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony.
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To change ones life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly.
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