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These then are my last words to you. Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
William James
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To be a real philosopher all that is necessary is to hate some one else's type of thinking.
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Knowledge about life is one thing; effective occupation of a place in life, with its dynamic currents passing through your being, is another.
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Success or failure depends more upon attitude than upon capacity successful men act as though they have accomplished or are enjoying something. Soon it becomes a reality. Act, look, feel successful, conduct yourself accordingly, and you will be amazed at the positive results.
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How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.
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A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.
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It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.
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We don't laugh because we're happy - we're happy because we laugh.
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We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.
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If merely 'feeling good' could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.
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Our faith is faith in someone else's faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.
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The hell to be endured hereafter, of which theology tells, is no worse than the hell we make for ourselves in this world by habitually fashioned our characters in the wrong way.
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Those thoughts are truth which guide us to beneficial interaction with sensible particulars as they occur, whether they copy these in advance or not.
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There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers.
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