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Our intelligence cannot wall itself up alive, like a pupa in a chrysalis. It must at any cost keep on speaking terms with the universe that engendered it.
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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.
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Belief and doubt are living attitudes, and involve conduct on our part. Our only way, for example, of doubting, or refusing to believe, that a certain thing is, is continuing to act as if it were not.
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The greatest discovery of any generation is that a human can alter his life by altering his attitude.
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Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.
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To give up pretensions is as blessed a relief as to get them ratified.
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The art of being wise is knowing what to overlook.
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A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.
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Beyond the very extremity of fatigue distress, amounts of ease and power that we never dreamed ourselves to own, sources of strength habitually not taxed at all, because habitually we never push through the obstruction
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