Tension is a habit. Relaxing is a habit. Bad habits can be broken, good habits formed.
WILLIAM JAMESThe 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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No bell in us tolls to let us know for certain when truth is in our grasp.
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With mere good intentions hell is proverbially paved.
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We hear the words we have spoken, feel our own blow as we give it, or read in the bystander’s eyes the success or failure of our conduct.
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Truth, as any dictionary will tell you, is a property of certain of our ideas. It means their agreement, as falsity means their disagreement, with reality.
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The God of many men is little more than their court of appeal against the damnatory judgment passed on their failures by the opinion of the world.
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Man lives in only one small room of the enormous house of his consciousness.
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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 greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.
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New habits can be launched.
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If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.
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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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The 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 difference between objective and subjective extension is one of relation to a context solely.
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The instant field of the present is at all times what I call the ‘pure’ experience. It is only virtually or potentially either object or subject as yet.
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