The sovereign cure for worry is prayer.
WILLIAM JAMESMan 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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A man has as many social selves as there are individuals who recognize him.
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Deepest principle of human nature is to be appreciated.
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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
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Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system
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Habit is thus the enormous fly-wheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. It alone is what keeps us all within the bounds of ordinance.
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A new idea is first condemned as ridiculous and then dismissed as trivial, until finally, it becomes what everybody knows.
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Asceticism may be a mere expression of organic hardihood, disgusted with too much ease.
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In business for yourself, not by yourself.
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All natural happiness thus seems infected with a contradiction. The breath of the sepulchre surrounds it.
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Truth for us is simply a collective name for verification processes
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If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.
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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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Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
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No one sees further into a generalization than his own knowledge of detail extends.
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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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