Touch is the alpha and omega of affection.
WILLIAM JAMESBelieve that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
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There’s nothing so absurd that if you repeat it often enough, people will believe it.
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Every individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony.
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The most immutable barrier in nature is between one man’s thoughts and another’s.
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The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.
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Fear of life in one form or another is the great thing to exorcise.
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Habit is a second nature, or rather, it is ‘ten times nature’.
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To change ones life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly.
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The intellectual life of man consists almost wholly in his substitution of conceptual order for the perceptual order in which his experience originally comes.
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No bell in us tolls to let us know for certain when truth is in our grasp.
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The ‘I think’ which Kant said must be able to accompany all my objects, is the ‘I breathe’ which actually does accompany them.
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But facts are facts, and if we only get enough of them theyare sure to combine.
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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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When you have broken the reality into concepts you never can reconstruct it in its wholeness.
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Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day.
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The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
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