Since you make evil or good by your own thoughts, it is your ruling of your thoughts which proves to be your principal concern.
WILLIAM JAMESFocus on increasing service. Becoming great where you are. Pile in the wood. The heat will follow.
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When once a decision is reached and execution is the order of the day, dismiss absolutely all responsibility and care about the outcome.
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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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The general law is that no mental modification ever occurs which is not accompanied or followed by a bodily change.
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The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
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The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one.
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The power to move the world is in the subconcious mind
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The deepest longing in the human breast is the desire for appreciation.
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Man can change his life simply by changing his attitude.
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Where is it, this present? It has melted in our grasp, fled ere we could touch it, gone in the instant of becoming.
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On pragmatistic principles, if the hypothesis of God works satisfactorily in the widest sense of the word, it is true.
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Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.
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Most men have a good memory for facts connected with their own pursuits.
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The ultimate test of what a truth means is the conduct it dictates or inspires.
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You must bring out of each word its practical cash-value, set it at work within the stream of your experience.
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Habit is thus the enormous fly-wheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. It alone is what keeps us all within the bounds of ordinance.
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