New habits can be launched.
WILLIAM JAMESAll natural happiness thus seems infected with a contradiction. The breath of the sepulchre surrounds it.
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Language is the most imperfect and expensive means yet discovered for communicating thought.
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Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.
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Impulse without reason is enough, and reason without impulse is a poor makeshift.
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The greatest weapon we have to combat stress is the ability to choose our thoughts.
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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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Genius… means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.
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Anything you may hold firmly in your imagination can be yours.
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True ideas are those that we can assimilate, validate, corroborate, and verify. False ideas are those that we cannot
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We want all our friends to tell us our bad qualities; it is only the particular ass that does so whom we can’t tolerate.
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Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
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It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.
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If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.
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On pragmatistic principles, if the hypothesis of God works satisfactorily in the widest sense of the word, it is true.
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Effort is the one strictly undervalued and original contribution we make to this world.
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All natural goods perish. Riches take wings; fame is a breath; love is a cheat; youth and health and pleasure vanish.
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