To give up pretensions is as blessed a relief as to get them ratified.
WILLIAM JAMESFocus on increasing service. Becoming great where you are. Pile in the wood. The heat will follow.
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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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The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly.
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Where is it, this present? It has melted in our grasp, fled ere we could touch it, gone in the instant of becoming.
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The most peculiar social self which one is apt to have is in the mind of the person one is in love with.
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The power to move the world is in the subconcious mind
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New habits can be launched.
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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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Touch is the alpha and omega of affection.
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Earnestness means willingness to live with energy, though energy bring pain.
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The great thing, then, in all education, is to make our nervous system our ally instead of our enemy.
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With mere good intentions hell is proverbially paved.
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Since you make evil or good by your own thoughts, it is your ruling of your thoughts which proves to be your principal concern.
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When once a decision is reached and execution is the order of the day, dismiss absolutely all responsibility and care about the outcome.
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The deepest longing in the human breast is the desire for appreciation.
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Truth, as any dictionary will tell you, is a property of certain of our ideas. It means their agreement, as falsity means their disagreement, with reality.
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