The strenuous life tastes better
WILLIAM JAMESOur intelligence cannot wall itself up alive, like a pupa in a chrysalis. It must at any cost keep on speaking terms with the universe that engendered it.
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Religion . . . shall mean for us the feelings, acts and experiences of individual men in their solitude.
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A paradise of inward tranquility seems to be faith’s usual result.
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Touch is the alpha and omega of affection.
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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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The education of attention would be an education par excellence
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Deepest principle of human nature is to be appreciated.
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There can be no existence of evil as a force to the healthy-minded individual.
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New habits can be launched.
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Man alone of all the creatures of earth can change his own pattern. Man alone is the architect of his own destiny.
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When once a decision is reached and execution is the order of the day, dismiss absolutely all responsibility and care about the outcome.
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If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.
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The ultimate test of what a truth means is the conduct it dictates or inspires.
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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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So our self-feeling in this world depends entirely on what we back ourselves to be and do.
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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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