There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.
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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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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At bottom, the whole concern of religion is with the manner of our acceptance of the universe.
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Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
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What would be better for us to believe!’ This sounds very like a definition of truth
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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.
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The great thing, then, in all education, is to make our nervous system our ally instead of our enemy.
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The first lecture in psychology that I ever heard was the first I ever gave.
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That which is most personal, is most interesting.
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Man can change his life simply by changing his attitude.
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There is but one unconditional commandment … to bring about the very largest total universe of good which we can see.
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We hear the words we have spoken, feel our own blow as we give it, or read in the bystander’s eyes the success or failure of our conduct.
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Man lives in only one small room of the enormous house of his consciousness.
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The impulse to take life strivingly is indestructible in the race.
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We may be in the Universe as dogs and cats are in our libraries, seeing the books and hearing the conversation, but having no inkling of the meaning of it all.
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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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