Asceticism may be a mere expression of organic hardihood, disgusted with too much ease.
WILLIAM JAMESSeek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive.
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The education of attention would be an education par excellence
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You can alter your life by altering the state of your mind.
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Man, biologically considered … is simply the most formidable of all beasts of prey, and, indeed, the only one that preys systematically on its own kind.
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If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.
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Language is the most imperfect and expensive means yet discovered for communicating thought.
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The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.
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Pretend what we may, the whole man within us is at work when we form our philosophical opinions.
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Time itself comes in drops.
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One of the greatest discoveries of our time is that a man can alter the state of their life by altering the state of their mind.
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Our beliefs are really rules for action.
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With no attempt there can be no failure; with no failure no humiliation.
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Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.
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Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system
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Our beliefs and our attention are the same fact.
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Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.
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