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Everybody ought to do at least two things each day that he hates t

Everybody ought to do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice. – William James

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

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Attitude
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William James
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The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community. – William James

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Sympathy
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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. – William James

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Faith
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William James
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The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism. – Norman Vincent Peale

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Your heart has been sore wounded too. Dear Light, love shall cherish you, till you again look on life with happy eyes. – Byron Caldwell Smith, letter to Kate Stephens

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Adversity

Its easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top. – Arnold Bennett

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Adversity

The darkest hour has only sixty minutes. – Morris Mandel

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Adversity

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We have to restore power to the family, to the neighborhood, and the community with a non-market principle, a principle of equality, of charity, of lets-take-care-of-one-another. Thats the creative challenge. – Jerry Brown

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