You may not get everything you dream about, but you will never get anything you don’t dream about.
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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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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To improve the golden moment of opportunity, and catch the good that is within our reach, is the great art of life.
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For the moment, what we attend to is reality.
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Most men have a good memory for facts connected with their own pursuits.
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To some of us the thought of God is like a sort of quiet music playing in the background of the mind.
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The God of many men is little more than their court of appeal against the damnatory judgment passed on their failures by the opinion of the world.
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It is very important that teachers should realize the importance of habit.
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Our view of the world is truly shaped by what we decide to hear.
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To know an object is to lead to it through a context which the world provides
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A sense of humor is just common sense dancing.
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To change ones life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly.
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The total possible consciousness may be split into parts which co-exist but mutually ignore each other.
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The world is all the richer for having a devil in it, so long as we keep our foot upon his neck.
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Every individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony.
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The deepest longing in the human breast is the desire for appreciation.
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