The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it. " "This life … - William James

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There is nothing like competition. It teaches you early in life to win and lose, and, when you lose, to put your chin out instead of dropping it.

William James

The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it. " "This life is worth living, we can say, since it is what we make it. " "Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.

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You can be an artist without visual images, a reader without eyes, a mass of erudition with a bad elementary memory. In almost any subject your passion for the subject will save you. If you only care enough for a result, you will almost certainly attain it. If you wish to be rich, you will be rich; if you wish to be learned, you will be learned; if you wish to be good, you will be good. Only you must, then, really wish these things, and wish them with exclusiveness, and not wish at the same time a hundred other incompatible things just as strongly.

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I don't sing because I'm happy; I'm happy because I sing.

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The transition from tenseness, self-responsibility, and worry, to equanimity, receptivity, and peace, is the most wonderful of all those shiftings of inner equilibrium, those changes of personal centre of energy, which I have analyzed so often; and the chief wonder of it is that it so often comes about, not by doing, but by simply relaxing and throwing the burden down.

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The great thing, then, in all education, is to make our nervous system our ally instead of our enemy.

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

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