Touch is the alpha and omega of affection.
WILLIAM JAMESThe true’to put it very briefly, is only the expedient in the way of our thinking, just as ‘the right’ is only the expedient in the way of our behaving.
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The strenuous life tastes better
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With mere good intentions hell is proverbially paved.
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If you want to change your life, do it flamboyantly and start immediately.
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Since you make evil or good by your own thoughts, it is your ruling of your thoughts which proves to be your principal concern.
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Our view of the world is truly shaped by what we decide to hear.
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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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Our beliefs and our attention are the same fact.
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Success plus Self-esteem equals Pretensions.
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The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
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The sovereign cure for worry is prayer.
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Men habitually use only a small part of the power which they actually possess.
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… the intellect, everywhere invasive, shows everywhere its shallowing effect.
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To some of us the thought of God is like a sort of quiet music playing in the background of the mind.
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Experience, as we know, has a way of boiling over, and making us correct our present formulas.
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The total possible consciousness may be split into parts which co-exist but mutually ignore each other.
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