Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being.
WILLIAM JAMESGreat emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.
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The question of free will is insoluble on strictly psychological grounds.
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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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We can change our circumstances by a mere change of our attitude.
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There can be no final truth in ethics any more than in physics, until the last man has had his experience and said his say.
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Anything you may hold firmly in your imagination can be yours.
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Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.
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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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When once a decision is reached and execution is the order of the day, dismiss absolutely all responsibility and care about the outcome.
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A sense of humor is just common sense dancing.
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A new idea is first condemned as ridiculous and then dismissed as trivial, until finally, it becomes what everybody knows.
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Just for today I will exercise my soul in three ways: I will do somebody a good turn and not get found out. I will do at least two things I don’t want to do
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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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New habits can be launched.
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Every individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony.
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For the moment, what we attend to is reality.
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