A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.
WILLIAM JAMESHuman beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
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Tension is a habit. Relaxing is a habit. Bad habits can be broken, good habits formed.
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If merely ‘feeling good’ could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.
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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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There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man’s lack of faith in his true Self.
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It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.
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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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We hear the words we have spoken, feel our own blow as we give it, or read in the bystander’s eyes the success or failure of our conduct.
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If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.
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Habit is a second nature, or rather, it is ‘ten times nature’.
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The impulse to take life strivingly is indestructible in the race.
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Impulse without reason is enough, and reason without impulse is a poor makeshift.
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Each of us is in fact what he is almost exclusively by virtue of his imitative-ness.
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I don’t sing because I’m happy; I’m happy because I sing.
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Asceticism may be a mere expression of organic hardihood, disgusted with too much ease.
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Circumstance does not make me, it reveals me.
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