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"Not to discriminate every moment some passionate attitude in those about us, and in the very brilliancy of their gifts some tragic dividing on their ways, is, on this short day of frost and sun, to sleep before evening."
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"Success or failure depends more upon attitude than upon capacity successful men act as though they have accomplished or are enjoying something. Soon it becomes a reality. Act, look, feel successful, conduct yourself accordingly, and you will be amazed at the positive results."
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"The man who is dissatisfied with himself, what can he do?"
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"Changing your attitude, your outlook, your mindset, perspective, disposition, or mood-they all mean controlling where you allow your thoughts to linger."
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Personal Development

"Hitler and Mussolini were only the primary spokesmen for the attitude of domination and craving for power that are in the heart of almost everyone. Until the source is cleared, there will always be confusion and hate, wars and class antagonisms."
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Personal Development

"But the attitude of faith is to let go, and become open to truth, whatever it might turn out to be."
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Personal Development

"And the attitude of faith is the very opposite of clinging to belief, of holding on."
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Personal Development

"A person will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body - the wishbone."
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Personal Development

"I'm bad and I'm going to hell, and I don't care. I'd rather be in hell than anywhere where you are."
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Personal Development

"Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world."
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Personal Development

"We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world."
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"Many attempts have been made by writers on art and poetry to define beauty in the abstract, to express it in the most general terms, to find some universal formula for it."
Art


"At first sight experience seems to bury us under a flood of external objects, pressing upon us with a sharp and importunate reality, calling us out of ourselves in a thousand forms of action."
Experience


"Art comes to you proposing frankly to give nothing but the highest quality to your moments as they pass."
Art


"Great passions may give us a quickened sense of life, ecstasy and sorrow of love, the various forms of enthusiastic activity, disinterested or otherwise, which comes naturally to many of us."
Life


"What is important, then, is not that the critic should possess a correct abstract definition of beauty for the intellect, but a certain kind of temperament, the power of being deeply moved by the presence of beautiful objects."
Beauty


"To burn always with this hard, gem-like flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life."
Life


"That sense of a life in natural objects, which in most poetry is but a rhetorical artifice, was, then, in Wordsworth the assertion of what was for him almost literal fact."
Life


"All art constantly aspires towards the condition of music."
Art


"Such discussions help us very little to enjoy what has been well done in art or poetry, to discriminate between what is more and what is less excellent in them, or to use words like beauty, excellence, art, poetry, with a more precise meaning than they would otherwise have."
Art


"Not to discriminate every moment some passionate attitude in those about us, and in the very brilliancy of their gifts some tragic dividing on their ways, is, on this short day of frost and sun, to sleep before evening."
Attitude
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