"In a gentle way, you can shake the world."

Gandhi, Mahatma on service
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"Be the change you want to see in the world."

Gandhi, Mahatma on change
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"Whenever you have truth it must be given with love, or the message and the messenger will be rejected."

Gandhi, Mahatma on truth
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"It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err."

Gandhi, Mahatma on wisdom
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"There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one who has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever."

Gandhi, Mahatma on worry
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"You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind."

Gandhi, Mahatma on control
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"Culture of the mind must be subservient to the heart."

Gandhi, Mahatma on culture
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"don't grow weeds, sow seeds. a solution made is better than a problem found"

Gandhi, Mahatma on problems
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"Nothing is impossible for pure love."

Gandhi, Mahatma on love
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"The greatest education in the world is watching the masters at work."

Jackson, Michael on education
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"Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune."

James, William on adversity
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"If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it."

James, William on desire
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"We forget that every good that is worth possessing must be paid for in strokes of daily effort. We postpone and postpone, until those smiling possibilities are dead."

James, William on effort
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"There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man's lack of faith in his true Self."

James, William on failure
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"It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence."

James, William on faith   

"Human beings are born into this little span of life of which the best thing is its friendship and intimacies, and soon their places will know them no more, and yet they leave their friendships and intimacies with no cultivation, to grow as they will by the roadside, expecting them to keep by force of inertia."

James, William on friends and friendship
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"If merely feeling good could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience."

James, William on alcohol and alcoholism
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"The sway of alcohol over mankind is unquestionably due to its power to stimulate the mystical faculties of human nature, usually crushed to earth by the cold facts and dry criticisms of the sober hour. Sobriety diminishes, discriminates, and says no; drunkenness expands, unites, and says yes."

James, William on alcohol and alcoholism
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"The minute a man ceases to grow, no matter what his years, that minute he begins to be old."

James, William on growth
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"We must make automatic and habitual, as early as possible, as many useful actions as we can...in the acquisition of a new habit, we must take car to launch ourselves with as strong and decided initiative as possible. Never suffer an exception to occur till the new habit is securely rooted in your life."

James, William on habit
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"Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed. which give happiness. Thomas Jefferson We never enjoy perfect happiness; our most fortunate successes are mingled with sadness; some anxieties always perplex the reality of our satisfaction."

James, William on happiness
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"A new idea is first condemned as ridiculous and then dismissed as trivial, until finally, it becomes what everybody knows."

James, William on ideas   

"If you want a quality, act as if you already had it. Try the as if technique."

James, William on imagination
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"There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision, and for whom the lighting of every cigar, the drinking of every cup, the time of rising and going to bed every day, and the beginning of every bit of work, are subjects of express volitional deliberation."

James, William on indecision   

"We don't laugh because we're happy -- we're happy because we laugh."

James, William on laughter
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"The deepest principle of human nature is the craving to be appreciated."

James, William on approval
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"Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second. Give your dreams all you've got and you'll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you."

James, William on perseverance
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"As there is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood by those who hear it, so reasonable arguments, challenges to magnanimity, and appeals to sympathy or justice, are folly when we are dealing with human crocodiles and boa-constrictors."

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"The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind."

James, William on attitude
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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."

James, William on attitude
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"Compared to what we ought to be, we are only half awake. We are making use of only a small part of our physical and mental resources. Stating the thing broadly, the human individual thus lives far within his limits. He possesses power of various sorts which he habitually fails to use."

James, William on possibilities   

"Whenever two people meet there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as the other person sees him, and each man as he really is."

James, William on possibilities
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"If any organism fails to fulfill its potentialities, it becomes sick."

James, William on potential
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"We have grown literally afraid to be poor. We despise anyone who elects to be poor in order to simplify and save his inner life. If he does not join the general scramble and pant with the money-making street, we deem him spiritless and lacking in ambition."

James, William on poverty and the poor   

"The greatest use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it."

James, William on purpose
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"It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all."

James, William on risk
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"If you want a trait, act as if you already have the trait."

James, William on action
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"Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact."

James, William on belief
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"As a rule we disbelieve all the facts and theories for which we have no use."

James, William on belief
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"Why should we think upon things that are lovely? Because thinking determines life. It is a common habit to blame life upon the environment. Environment modifies life but does not govern life. The soul is stronger than its surroundings."

James, William on thoughts and thinking
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