Habit is a second nature, or rather, it is ‘ten times nature’.
WILLIAM JAMESWith mere good intentions hell is proverbially paved.
More William James Quotes
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The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
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There can be no existence of evil as a force to the healthy-minded individual.
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Wisdom is learning what to overlook.
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If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.
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So it is with children who learn to read fluently and well: They begin to take flight into whole new worlds as effortlessly as young birds take to the sky.
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[T]here is very little difference between one person and another, but what little difference ther eis, is very important.
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Lives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or being.
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Procrastination is attitude’s natural assassin. There’s nothing so fatiguing as an uncompleted task
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The difference between objective and subjective extension is one of relation to a context solely.
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Man lives in only one small room of the enormous house of his consciousness.
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No one sees further into a generalization than his own knowledge of detail extends.
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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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Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
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A sense of humor is just common sense dancing.
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In business for yourself, not by yourself.
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