The total possible consciousness may be split into parts which co-exist but mutually ignore each other.
WILLIAM JAMESThe great thing, then, in all education, is to make our nervous system our ally instead of our enemy.
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The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.
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To neglect the wise sayings of great thinkers is to deny ourselves the truest education.
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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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Fear of life in one form or another is the great thing to exorcise.
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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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So our self-feeling in this world depends entirely on what we back ourselves to be and do.
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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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Touch is the alpha and omega of affection.
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A new opinion counts as true just in proportion as it gratifies the individual’s desire to assimilate the novel in his experience to his beliefs in stock
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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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A man has as many social selves as there are individuals who recognize him.
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Where is it, this present? It has melted in our grasp, fled ere we could touch it, gone in the instant of becoming.
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With mere good intentions hell is proverbially paved.
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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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Give your dreams all you’ve got, and you’ll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you.
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