Habit is a second nature, or rather, it is ‘ten times nature’.
WILLIAM JAMESThe deepest human need is the need to be appreciated.
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Objective evidence and certitude are doubtless very fine ideals to play with, but where on this moonlit and dream-visited planet are they found?
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Give your dreams all you’ve got, and you’ll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you.
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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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Our beliefs and our attention are the same fact.
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Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day.
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Men habitually use only a small part of the power which they actually possess.
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The first lecture in psychology that I ever heard was the first I ever gave.
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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 art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
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Wisdom is learning what to overlook.
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The God of many men is little more than their court of appeal against the damnatory judgment passed on their failures by the opinion of the world.
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The power to move the world is in the subconcious mind
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The discovery of the power of our thoughts will prove to be the most important discovery of our time
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The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
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The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly.
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