The lunatic’s visions of horror are all drawn from the material of daily fact.
WILLIAM JAMESThe greatest weapon we have to combat stress is the ability to choose our thoughts.
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Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.
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We forget that every good that is worth possessing must be paid for in strokes of daily effort.
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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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A new idea is first condemned as ridiculous and then dismissed as trivial, until finally, it becomes what everybody knows.
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Facts’ are the bounds of human knowledge, set for it, not by it.
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In business for yourself, not by yourself.
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Mankind’s common instinct for reality has always held the world to be essentially a theatre for heroism.
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Procrastination is attitude’s natural assassin. There’s nothing so fatiguing as an uncompleted task
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We want all our friends to tell us our bad qualities; it is only the particular ass that does so whom we can’t tolerate.
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The minute a man ceases to grow, no matter what his years, that minute he begins to be old.
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The discovery of the power of our thoughts will prove to be the most important discovery of our time
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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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Philosophy lives in words, but truth and fact well up into our lives in ways that exceed verbal formulation.
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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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Religious awe is the same organic thrill which we feel in a forest at twilight, or in a mountain gorge.
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