As long as there are postmen, life will have zest.
WILLIAM JAMESSeek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive.
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Facts’ are the bounds of human knowledge, set for it, not by it.
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The mind, in short, works on the data it receives very much as the sculptor works on his block of stone.
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Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive.
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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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I don’t sing because I’m happy; I’m happy because I sing.
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Touch is the alpha and omega of affection.
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If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.
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The lunatic’s visions of horror are all drawn from the material of daily fact.
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But facts are facts, and if we only get enough of them theyare sure to combine.
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Owing to the fact that all experience is a process, no point of view can ever be the last one
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The power to move the world is in the subconcious mind
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No living person is sunk so low as not to be imitated by somebody.
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It is very important that teachers should realize the importance of habit.
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All natural happiness thus seems infected with a contradiction. The breath of the sepulchre surrounds it.
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We are stereotyped creatures, imitators and copiers of our past selves.
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