"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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"I will act as if what I do makes a difference."

James, William on action   

"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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"The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook."

James, William on wisdom
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"The sovereign cure for worry is prayer."

James, William on worry
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"When you have to make a choice and don't make it, that in itself is a choice."

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

James, William on approval
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"The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it."

James, William on life
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"Practice in life whatever you pray for and God will give it to you more abundantly."

Pusey, Edward Bouverie on prayer
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"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover."

Twain, Mark on action
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"Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky."

Tagore, Rabindranath on adversity
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"A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain."

James, William on ecology   

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"To spend life for something which outlasts it."

James, William on achievement
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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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"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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"Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice."

James, William on life   

"Men's activities are occupied into ways -- in grappling with external circumstances and in striving to set things at one in their own topsy-turvy mind."

James, William on circumstance   

"Just as a small fire is extinguished by the storm whereas a large fire is enhanced by it-likewise a weak faith is weakened by predicament and catastrophes whereas a strong faith is strengthened by them."

Frankl, Viktor E. on faith
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"Only to the extent that someone is living out this self transcendence of human existence, is he truly human or does he become his true self. He becomes so, not by concerning himself with his self's actualization, but by forgetting himself and giving himself, overlooking himself and focusing outward."

Frankl, Viktor E. on life
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"It is better to travel hopefully than to arrive."

Stevenson, Robert Louis on travel   

"You cannot run away from weakness; you must some time fight it out or perish; and if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?"

Stevenson, Robert Louis on weakness
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"The world is full of a number of things, I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings."

Stevenson, Robert Louis on world   

"Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant."

Stevenson, Robert Louis on action
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"There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. "

Stevenson, Robert Louis on uncategorised   

"Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything."

Shaw, George Bernard on change
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"Two basic rules of life: 1. Change is Inevitable 2. Everyone Resists Change. Remember this: When you are through changing... you're through."

Unknown, Source on change
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"A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world."

Buscaglia, Leo on friends and friendship
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"What you are is God's gift to you, what you do with yourself is your gift to God."

Buscaglia, Leo on gifts
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"The easiest thing to be in the world is you. The most difficult thing to be is what other people want you to be. Don't let them put you in that position."

Buscaglia, Leo on honesty
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"To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life."

Stevenson, Robert Louis on success
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"An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding."

Stevenson, Robert Louis on goals
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"Ever more people today have the means to live, but no meaning to live for."

Frankl, Viktor E. on purpose
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"Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind."

Hoffer, Eric on kindness
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"The earth laughs in flowers."

Cummings, E.E. (Edward. E.) on laughter
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"It takes courage to grow up and turn out to be who you really are."

Cummings, E.E. (Edward. E.) on courage
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"To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you ought to prefer is to have kept your soul alive."

Stevenson, Robert Louis on desire
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"There is no duty we so much underrated as the duty of being happy."

Stevenson, Robert Louis on duty
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"No man is useless while he has a friend."

Stevenson, Robert Louis on friends and friendship