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.
WILLIAM JAMESAll of our life is but a mass of small habits – practical, emotional, intellectual and spiritual – that bear us irresistibly toward our destiny.
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Habit 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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Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being.
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You must bring out of each word its practical cash-value, set it at work within the stream of your experience.
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Fear of life in one form or another is the great thing to exorcise.
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Procrastination is attitude’s natural assassin. There’s nothing so fatiguing as an uncompleted task
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All of our life is but a mass of small habits – practical, emotional, intellectual and spiritual – that bear us irresistibly toward our destiny.
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Pretend what we may, the whole man within us is at work when we form our philosophical opinions.
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Individuality is founded in feeling
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[Religion is] the attempt to be in harmony with an unseen order of things.
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Most unhappiness is caused because people listen to themselves… instead of talking to themselves.
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Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.
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Man lives in only one small room of the enormous house of his consciousness.
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A sense of humor is just common sense dancing.
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Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
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Objective evidence and certitude are doubtless very fine ideals to play with, but where on this moonlit and dream-visited planet are they found?
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