Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being.
WILLIAM JAMESAll religions begin with the cry Help.
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The most immutable barrier in nature is between one man’s thoughts and another’s.
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The greatest weapon we have to combat stress is the ability to choose our thoughts.
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Tension is a habit. Relaxing is a habit. Bad habits can be broken, good habits formed.
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To consider hypotheses is surely always better than to dogmatize ins blaue hinein
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Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system
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The minute a man ceases to grow, no matter what his years, that minute he begins to be old.
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Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.
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If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.
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The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.
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Real culture lives by sympathies and admirations, not by dislikes and disdains; under all misleading wrappings it pounces unerringly upon the human core.
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In business for yourself, not by yourself.
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We want all our friends to tell us our bad qualities; it is only the particular ass that does so whom we can’t tolerate.
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We are stereotyped creatures, imitators and copiers of our past selves.
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There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.
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Language is the most imperfect and expensive means yet discovered for communicating thought.
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