Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being.
WILLIAM JAMESMan, biologically considered … is simply the most formidable of all beasts of prey, and, indeed, the only one that preys systematically on its own kind.
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A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.
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Tension is a habit. Relaxing is a habit. Bad habits can be broken, good habits formed.
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Each of us is in fact what he is almost exclusively by virtue of his imitative-ness.
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An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.
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The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.
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What would be better for us to believe!’ This sounds very like a definition of truth
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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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Circumstance does not make me, it reveals me.
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The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
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We are thinking beings, and we cannot exclude the intellect from participating in any of our functions.
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Language is the most imperfect and expensive means yet discovered for communicating thought.
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The first lecture in psychology that I ever heard was the first I ever gave.
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Most unhappiness is caused because people listen to themselves… instead of talking to themselves.
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The mind, in short, works on the data it receives very much as the sculptor works on his block of stone.
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A paradise of inward tranquility seems to be faith’s usual result.
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