We are proud of a human nature that could be so passionately extreme, but we shrink from advising others to follow the example.
WILLIAM JAMESThe great thing, then, in all education, is to make our nervous system our ally instead of our enemy.
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We want all our friends to tell us our bad qualities; it is only the particular ass that does so whom we can’t tolerate.
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It seems the natural thing for us to listen whilst the Europeans talk.
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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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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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As long as there are postmen, life will have zest.
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The union of the mathematician with the poet, fervor with measure, passion with correctness, this surely is the ideal.
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Man can alter his life by altering his thinking.
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Every individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony.
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Success plus Self-esteem equals Pretensions.
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Our beliefs are really rules for action.
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Once you accept an idea, it’s an idea whose time has come.
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Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.
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We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.
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Circumstance does not make me, it reveals me.
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The power to move the world is in the subconcious mind
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