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It is better to have faith in everybody and be deceived occasionally than to mistrust everybody and be deceived almost constantly.

— Christian D. Larson Your Forces and How to Use Them (1912)

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The master mind is the mind that thinks what it wants to think, regardless of what circumstances, environment or associations may suggest.

Your Forces and How to Use Them (1912)

Life becomes the way it is lived; and man may live the way he wants to live when he learns to think what he wants to think.

Your Forces and How to Use Them (1912)

The true purpose of the strong is to promote greater strength in the weak, and not to keep the weak in that state where they are at the mercy of the strong.

Your Forces and How to Use Them (1912)

When your thinking is brilliant, you will be brilliant, but if your thinking is not brilliant you will not be brilliant, no matter how brilliant you may think you are.

Your Forces and How to Use Them (1912)

The pessimist waits for better times, and expects to keep on waiting; the optimist goes to work with the best that is at hand now, and proceeds to create better times.

Your Forces and How to Use Them (1912)

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Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.

William James The Will to Believe and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy (1897)

Question with boldness even the existence of a god; because, if there be one, he must more approve the homage of reason, than that of blindfolded fear.

Thomas Jefferson Letter to Peter Carr (1787)

I had never doubted my own abilities, but I was quite prepared to believe that "the world" would decline to recognize them.

Colin Wilson Postscript to the Outsider (1967)

Love is the active, working principle in all true faith. It is its very soul, without which it is dead. "Faith works by love."

Jonathan Edwards Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

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