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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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" Where quality is the thing sought after, the thing of supreme quality is cheap, whatever the price one has to pay for it. "

" One hearty laugh together will bring enemies into a closer communion of heart than hours spent on both sides in inward wrestling with the mental demon of uncharitable feeling. "

" There must be something solemn, serious, and tender about any attitude which we denominate religious. If glad, it must not grin or snicker; if sad, it must not scream or curse. "

" If any organism fails to fulfill its potentialities, it becomes sick. "

" The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated. "

" To spend life for something which outlasts it. "

" There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision. "

" The best argument I know for an immortal life is the existence of a man who deserves one. "

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

" To be radical, an empiricism must neither admit into its constructions any element that is not directly experienced, nor exclude from them any element that is directly experienced. "

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

" It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all. And often enough our faith beforehand in an uncertified result is the only thing that makes the result come true. "

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

" Metaphysics means nothing but an unusually obstinate effort to think clearly. "

" Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system. Our thoughts and beliefs pass, so long as nothing challenges them, just as bank-notes pass so long as nobody refuses them. "

" This life is worth living, we can say, since it is what we make it. "

" 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. "

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

" In the dim background of mind we know what we ought to be doing but somehow we cannot start. "

" We are doomed to cling to a life even while we find it unendurable. "

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

" Our esteem for facts has not neutralized in us all religiousness. It is itself almost religious. Our scientific temper is devout. "

" Man lives for science as well as bread. "

" To change ones life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly. "

" Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible. "

" We have to live today by what truth we can get today and be ready tomorrow to call it falsehood. "

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

" 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. "

" Action may not bring happiness but there is no happiness without action. "