We are stereotyped creatures, imitators and copiers of our past selves.
WILLIAM JAMESExperience, as we know, has a way of boiling over, and making us correct our present formulas.
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New habits can be launched.
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We are thinking beings, and we cannot exclude the intellect from participating in any of our functions.
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Touch is the alpha and omega of affection.
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Truth is something that happens to an idea.
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The deepest longing in the human breast is the desire for appreciation.
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Every individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony.
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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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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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A sense of humor is just common sense dancing.
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There can be no difference anywhere that does not make a difference somewhere.
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To improve the golden moment of opportunity, and catch the good that is within our reach, is the great art of life.
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If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.
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Anything you may hold firmly in your imagination can be yours.
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A paradise of inward tranquility seems to be faith’s usual result.
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All religions begin with the cry Help.
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