That which is most personal, is most interesting.
WILLIAM JAMESHabit is a second nature, or rather, it is ‘ten times nature’.
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All of our life is but a mass of small habits – practical, emotional, intellectual and spiritual – that bear us irresistibly toward our destiny.
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In business for yourself, not by yourself.
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No living person is sunk so low as not to be imitated by somebody.
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The deepest hunger in human beings is the desire to be appreciated.
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For the moment, what we attend to is reality.
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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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You may not get everything you dream about, but you will never get anything you don’t dream about.
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When you have broken the reality into concepts you never can reconstruct it in its wholeness.
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The strenuous life tastes better
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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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We forget that every good that is worth possessing must be paid for in strokes of daily effort.
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There is but one unconditional commandment … to bring about the very largest total universe of good which we can see.
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The teachers of this country, one may say, have its future in their hands.
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You must bring out of each word its practical cash-value, set it at work within the stream of your experience.
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To change ones life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly.
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