That which is most personal, is most interesting.
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Science, like life, feeds on its own decay. New facts burst old rules; then newly divined conceptions bind old and new together into a reconciling law.
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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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The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.
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There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.
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The sovereign cure for worry is prayer.
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It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.
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Everything which is demanded is by that fact a good.
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If you give appreciation to people, you win their goodwill. But more important than that, practicing this philosophy has made a different person of me.
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We are proud of a human nature that could be so passionately extreme, but we shrink from advising others to follow the example.
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Religious awe is the same organic thrill which we feel in a forest at twilight, or in a mountain gorge.
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You can alter your life by altering the state of your mind.
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Man lives in only one small room of the enormous house of his consciousness.
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The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.
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With mere good intentions hell is proverbially paved.
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Habit is a second nature, or rather, it is ‘ten times nature’.
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