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.
WILLIAM JAMESAsceticism may be a mere expression of organic hardihood, disgusted with too much ease.
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Every individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony.
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If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.
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If merely ‘feeling good’ could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.
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The general law is that no mental modification ever occurs which is not accompanied or followed by a bodily change.
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A man has as many social selves as there are individuals who recognize him.
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No one sees further into a generalization than his own knowledge of detail extends.
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Focus on increasing service. Becoming great where you are. Pile in the wood. The heat will follow.
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Asceticism may be a mere expression of organic hardihood, disgusted with too much ease.
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Habit is a second nature, or rather, it is ‘ten times nature’.
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True to her inveterate habit, rationalism reverts to ‘principles,’ and thinks that when an abstraction once is named, we own an oracular solution.
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All natural goods perish. Riches take wings; fame is a breath; love is a cheat; youth and health and pleasure vanish.
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Impulse without reason is enough, and reason without impulse is a poor makeshift.
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Experience, as we know, has a way of boiling over, and making us correct our present formulas.
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Since you make evil or good by your own thoughts, it is your ruling of your thoughts which proves to be your principal concern.
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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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With no attempt there can be no failure; with no failure no humiliation.
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Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.
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The power to move the world is in the subconcious mind
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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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Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
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Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.
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Let everything you do be done as if it makes a difference.
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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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To change ones life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly.
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The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
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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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