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To improve the golden moment of opportunity, and catch the good that is within our reach, is the great art of life.
William James
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William James
Age: 68 †
Born: 1842
Born: January 11
Died: 1910
Died: August 26
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Our normal waking consciousness, rational consciousness as we call it, is but one special type of consciousness, whilst all about it, parted from it by the filmiest of screens, there lie potential forms of consciousness entirely different.
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Belief creates the actual fact.
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It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again.
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Religious awe is the same organic thrill which we feel in a forest at twilight, or in a mountain gorge.
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