Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day.
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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Our view of the world is truly shaped by what we decide to hear.
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It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.
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Tension is a habit. Relaxing is a habit. Bad habits can be broken, good habits formed.
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The great thing, then, in all education, is to make our nervous system our ally instead of our enemy.
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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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Religion is a monumental chapter in the history of human egotism.
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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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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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Let everything you do be done as if it makes a difference.
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The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.
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Modern man . . . has not ceased to be credulous . . . the need to believe haunts him.
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A sense of humor is just common sense dancing.
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The teachers of this country, one may say, have its future in their hands.
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The instant field of the present is at all times what I call the ‘pure’ experience. It is only virtually or potentially either object or subject as yet.
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You can alter your life by altering the state of your mind.
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Focus on increasing service. Becoming great where you are. Pile in the wood. The heat will follow.
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Time itself comes in drops.
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Everything which is demanded is by that fact a good.
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Most men have a good memory for facts connected with their own pursuits.
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A paradise of inward tranquility seems to be faith’s usual result.
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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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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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Asceticism may be a mere expression of organic hardihood, disgusted with too much ease.
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In all primary school work the principle of multiple impressions is well recognized.
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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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Faith is synonymous with working hypothesis.
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