Fear of life in one form or another is the great thing to exorcise.
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Mankind’s common instinct for reality has always held the world to be essentially a theatre for heroism.
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Tension is a habit. Relaxing is a habit. Bad habits can be broken, good habits formed.
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I myself believe that the evidence for God lies primarily in inner personal experiences.
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The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly.
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One of the greatest discoveries of our time is that a man can alter the state of their life by altering the state of their mind.
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The strenuous life tastes better
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It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.
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Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive.
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A man has as many social selves as there are individuals who recognize him.
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The general law is that no mental modification ever occurs which is not accompanied or followed by a bodily change.
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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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The deepest hunger in human beings is the desire to be appreciated.
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We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.
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History is a bath of blood.
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