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Ends Quotes by William James
- Be patient and sympathetic with the type of mind that cuts a poor figure in examinations. It may, in the long examination which life sets…
- So to feel brave, act as if we were brave, use all our will to that end...and a courage-fit will very likely replace the fit…
- It is true that so far as wealth gives time for ideal ends and exercise to ideal energies, wealth is better than poverty and ought…
- We need only in cold blood to act as if the thing in question were real and it will infallibly end by growing into such…
- The voluntary path to cheerfulness, if our spontaneous cheerfulness be lost, is to sit up cheerfully, and act and speak as if cheerfulness were already…
- Romeo wants Juliet as the filings want the magnet; and if no obstacles intervene he moves towards her by as straight a line as they.…
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- Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but… — Hannah Arendt
- Salvation means knowing the truth. We do not become anything; we are what we are. Salvation [comes] by faith and not by… — Swami Vivekananda
- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- I try to push ideas away, and the ones that will not leave me alone are the ones that ultimately end up… — J. J. Abrams
- I really enjoy being single again. I spent a lot of time in a relationship and the nearer we came to the… — Dido Armstrong
- It began in mystery, and it will end in mystery, but what a savage and beautiful country lies in between. — Diane Ackerman
- Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics. — Aristotle
- I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I… — Diane Ackerman