A new opinion counts as true just in proportion as it gratifies the individual’s desire to assimilate the novel in his experience to his beliefs in stock
WILLIAM JAMESThere is but one cause of human failure. And that is man’s lack of faith in his true Self.
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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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Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being.
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Just for today I will exercise my soul in three ways: I will do somebody a good turn and not get found out. I will do at least two things I don’t want to do
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The question of free will is insoluble on strictly psychological grounds.
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I don’t sing because I’m happy; I’m happy because I sing.
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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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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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To consider hypotheses is surely always better than to dogmatize ins blaue hinein
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Man can alter his life by altering his thinking.
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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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New habits can be launched.
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All religions begin with the cry Help.
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No one sees further into a generalization than his own knowledge of detail extends.
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Organization and method mean much, but contagious human characters mean more in a university.
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Let everything you do be done as if it makes a difference.
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