Tension is a habit. Relaxing is a habit. Bad habits can be broken, good habits formed.
WILLIAM JAMESThe minute a man ceases to grow, no matter what his years, that minute he begins to be old.
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It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.
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Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being.
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Everything which is demanded is by that fact a good.
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Habit is thus the enormous fly-wheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. It alone is what keeps us all within the bounds of ordinance.
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Where quality is the thing sought after, the thing of supreme quality is cheap, whatever the price one has to pay for it.
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There’s nothing so absurd that if you repeat it often enough, people will believe it.
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The ultimate test of what a truth means is the conduct it dictates or inspires.
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Most unhappiness is caused because people listen to themselves… instead of talking to themselves.
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If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.
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All religions begin with the cry Help.
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You may not get everything you dream about, but you will never get anything you don’t dream about.
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Man alone of all the creatures of earth can change his own pattern. Man alone is the architect of his own destiny.
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We with our lives are like islands in the sea, or like trees in the forest… But the trees also commingle their roots in the darkness underground.
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Fear of life in one form or another is the great thing to exorcise.
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Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive.
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