Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.
WILLIAM JAMESThe deepest longing in the human breast is the desire for appreciation.
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The minute a man ceases to grow, no matter what his years, that minute he begins to be old.
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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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Our 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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Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
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Man alone of all the creatures of earth can change his own pattern. Man alone is the architect of his own destiny.
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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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But facts are facts, and if we only get enough of them theyare sure to combine.
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Facts’ are the bounds of human knowledge, set for it, not by it.
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Habit is a second nature, or rather, it is ‘ten times nature’.
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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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Everything which is demanded is by that fact a good.
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There can be no difference anywhere that does not make a difference somewhere.
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All religions begin with the cry Help.
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To consider hypotheses is surely always better than to dogmatize ins blaue hinein
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Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.
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