Man can alter his life by altering his thinking.
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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True to her inveterate habit, rationalism reverts to ‘principles,’ and thinks that when an abstraction once is named, we own an oracular solution.
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The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.
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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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All natural happiness thus seems infected with a contradiction. The breath of the sepulchre surrounds it.
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A man of sense is never discouraged by difficulties; he redoubles his industry and his diligence, he perseveres and infallibly prevails at last.
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There can be no difference anywhere that does not make a difference somewhere.
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The emotions aren’t always immediately subject to reason, but they are always immediately subject to action.
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The greatest weapon we have to combat stress is the ability to choose our thoughts.
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Real culture lives by sympathies and admirations, not by dislikes and disdains; under all misleading wrappings it pounces unerringly upon the human core.
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The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
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It is art that makes life, and I know of no substitute whatsoever for the force and beauty of its process.
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To give up pretensions is as blessed a relief as to get them ratified.
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The deepest hunger in human beings is the desire to be appreciated.
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To consider hypotheses is surely always better than to dogmatize ins blaue hinein
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Owing to the fact that all experience is a process, no point of view can ever be the last one
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