Just for today I will exercise my soul in three ways: I will do somebody a good turn and not get found out. I will do at least two things I don’t want to do
WILLIAM JAMESFocus on increasing service. Becoming great where you are. Pile in the wood. The heat will follow.
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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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The sovereign cure for worry is prayer.
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A paradise of inward tranquility seems to be faith’s usual result.
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Man, whatever else he may be, is primarily a practical being, whose mind is given him to aid in adapting him to this world’s life
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In all primary school work the principle of multiple impressions is well recognized.
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At bottom, the whole concern of religion is with the manner of our acceptance of the universe.
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Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.
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Truth happens to an idea
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Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.
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The greatest weapon we have to combat stress is the ability to choose our thoughts.
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The deepest longing in the human breast is the desire for appreciation.
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The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.
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Time itself comes in drops.
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The intellectual life of man consists almost wholly in his substitution of conceptual order for the perceptual order in which his experience originally comes.
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Men’s activities are occupied into ways — in grappling with external circumstances and in striving to set things at one in their own topsy-turvy mind.
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