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William James

To improve the golden moment of opportunity, and catch the good that is within our reach, is the great art of life.
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Art Life Positive
It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.
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Change Life Positive
We forget that every good that is worth possessing must be paid for in strokes of daily effort.
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Best Effort Forget Hard Work
Modern man . . . has not ceased to be credulous . . . the need to believe haunts him.
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Believe Men Needs
Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
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Encouraging Life Positive
When you have broken the reality into concepts you never can reconstruct it in its wholeness.
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Broken Concepts Reality
When once a decision is reached and execution is the order of the day, dismiss absolutely all responsibility and care about the outcome.
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Decision Order Responsibility
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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Alive Cost Wall
Genius is the capacity for seeing relationships where lesser men see none.
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Capacity Genius Men
Every individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony.
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Agony Individual Lonely
Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.
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Believe Faith Philosophical
There is but one unconditional commandment … to bring about the very largest total universe of good which we can see.
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Helping Others Unconditional Volunteering
The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.
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Community Friendship Sympathy
You may not get everything you dream about, but you will never get anything you don’t dream about.
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Anything Dream Everything May
For the moment, what we attend to is reality.
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Attend Moments Reality
A sense of humor is just common sense dancing.
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Common Dance Humor Sense

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