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"The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action."
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"Any genuine philosophy leads to action and from action back again to wonder, to the enduring fact of mystery."

"Do it or not, but do."

"I'm good at doing things I'm not supposed to, she said, then kicked the door open."

"Then indecision brings its own delays, And days are lost lamenting over lost days. Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute; What you can do, or dream you can do, begin it; Boldness has genius, power and magic in it."

"Taking action provides immediate feedback and an opportunity to review your progress to see if you are on the right track."
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"Man is not logical and his intellectual history is a record of mental reserves and compromises. He hangs on to what he can in his old beliefs even when he is compelled to surrender their logical basis."

"To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness."

"Such happiness as life is capable of comes from the full participation of all our powers in the endeavor to wrest from each changing situations of experience its own full and unique meaning."

"The path of least resistance and least trouble is a mental rut already made. It requires troublesome work to undertake the alternation of old beliefs."

"One lives with so many bad deeds on one's conscience and some good intentions in one's heart."

"Just as a flower which seems beautiful and has color but no perfume, so are the fruitless words of the man who speaks them but does them not."
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