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The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.

Each of us literally chooses, by his way of attending to things, what sort of universe he shall appear to himself to inhabit. -William James.

Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.

We want all our friends to tell us our bad qualities; it is only the particular ass that does so whom we can't tolerate.

We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.

To change one's life: 1. Starte immediately, 2. Do it flamboyantly, 3. No exceptions. -William James.

When you have to make a choice and don't make it, that in itself is a choice.

There can be no existence of evil as a force to the healthy-minded individual.

Human beings are born into this little span of life of which the best thing is its friendship and intimacies, and soon their places will know them no more, and yet they leave their friendships and intimacies with no cultivation, to grow as they will b.

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

The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.

The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.

There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood by those who hear it.

For morality life is a war, and the service of the highest is a sort of cosmic patriotism which also calls for volunteers.

A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.

A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.

To give up pretensions is as blessed a relief as to get them gratified.

Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.

It is as important to cultivate your silence power as your word power.

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