With mere good intentions hell is proverbially paved.
WILLIAM JAMESI am well aware how odd it must seem to some of you to hear me say that an idea is true so long as to believe it is profitable to our lives
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There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.
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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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Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being.
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All of our life is but a mass of small habits – practical, emotional, intellectual and spiritual – that bear us irresistibly toward our destiny.
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Religion is a monumental chapter in the history of human egotism.
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Man can change his life simply by changing his attitude.
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Men’s activities are occupied into ways — in grappling with external circumstances and in striving to set things at one in their own topsy-turvy mind.
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For the moment, what we attend to is reality.
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In business for yourself, not by yourself.
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Habit is a second nature, or rather, it is ‘ten times nature’.
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An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.
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Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.
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There can be no difference anywhere that does not make a difference somewhere.
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Philosophy lives in words, but truth and fact well up into our lives in ways that exceed verbal formulation.
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The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.
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Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
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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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If you give appreciation to people, you win their goodwill. But more important than that, practicing this philosophy has made a different person of me.
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We with our lives are like islands in the sea, or like trees in the forest… But the trees also commingle their roots in the darkness underground.
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The most peculiar social self which one is apt to have is in the mind of the person one is in love with.
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The world is all the richer for having a devil in it, so long as we keep our foot upon his neck.
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No one sees further into a generalization than his own knowledge of detail extends.
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No living person is sunk so low as not to be imitated by somebody.
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The intellectual life of man consists almost wholly in his substitution of conceptual order for the perceptual order in which his experience originally comes.
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Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive.
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To know an object is to lead to it through a context which the world provides
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