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" Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second. "

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" Individuality is founded in feeling; and the recesses of feeling, the darker, blinder strata of character, are the only places in the world in which we catch real fact in the making, and directly perceive how events happen, and how work is actually done. "

" To be a real philosopher all that is necessary is to hate some one else's type of thinking. "

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

" If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it. "

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

" Belief creates the actual fact. "

" 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. "

" Whatever universe a professor believes in must at any rate be a universe that lends itself to lengthy discourse. A universe definable in two sentences is something for which the professorial intellect has no use. No faith in anything of that cheap kind! "

" To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal. "

" Every man who possibly can should force himself to a holiday of a full month in a year, whether he feels like taking it or not. "

" 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. "

" It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome. "

" Man lives for science as well as bread. "

" Be willing to have it so. Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune. "

" An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible. "

" Knowledge about life is one thing; effective occupation of a place in life, with its dynamic currents passing through your being, is another. "

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

" The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes. "

" Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed. "

" 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. "

" Whenever you're in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is attitude. "

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

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

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

" Truth is what works. "

" Pessimism leads to weakness, optimism to power. "

" Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does. "

" The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community. "