Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.
WILLIAM JAMESHabit 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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The impulse to take life strivingly is indestructible in the race.
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If you give appreciation to people, you win their goodwill. But more important than that, practicing this philosophy has made a different person of me.
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Man lives in only one small room of the enormous house of his consciousness.
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So to feel brave, act as if we were brave, use all our will to that end…and a courage-fit will very likely replace the fit of fear.
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The strenuous life tastes better
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There is but one unconditional commandment … to bring about the very largest total universe of good which we can see.
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In all primary school work the principle of multiple impressions is well recognized.
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The deepest hunger in human beings is the desire to be appreciated.
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To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.
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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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Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being.
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Asceticism may be a mere expression of organic hardihood, disgusted with too much ease.
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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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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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All natural goods perish. Riches take wings; fame is a breath; love is a cheat; youth and health and pleasure vanish.
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