Habit is a second nature, or rather, it is ‘ten times nature’.
WILLIAM JAMESThe mind, in short, works on the data it receives very much as the sculptor works on his block of stone.
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The power to move the world is in the subconcious mind
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Anything you may hold firmly in your imagination can be yours.
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All natural happiness thus seems infected with a contradiction. The breath of the sepulchre surrounds it.
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History is a bath of blood.
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The impulse to take life strivingly is indestructible in the race.
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Truth happens to an idea
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In business for yourself, not by yourself.
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To give up pretensions is as blessed a relief as to get them ratified.
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Modern man . . . has not ceased to be credulous . . . the need to believe haunts him.
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The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.
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The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.
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The deepest longing in the human breast is the desire for appreciation.
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Tension is a habit. Relaxing is a habit. Bad habits can be broken, good habits formed.
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Both thought and feeling are determinants of conduct, and the same conduct may be determined either by feeling or by thought.
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Man can change his life simply by changing his attitude.
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