A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.
WILLIAM JAMESTension is a habit. Relaxing is a habit. Bad habits can be broken, good habits formed.
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Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.
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It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.
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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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The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.
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Man alone of all the creatures of earth can change his own pattern. Man alone is the architect of his own destiny.
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A man with no philosophy in him is the most inauspicious and unprofitable of all possible social mates.
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The difference between objective and subjective extension is one of relation to a context solely.
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Truth, as any dictionary will tell you, is a property of certain of our ideas. It means their agreement, as falsity means their disagreement, with reality.
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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 deepest hunger in human beings is the desire to be appreciated.
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We are proud of a human nature that could be so passionately extreme, but we shrink from advising others to follow the example.
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I don’t sing because I’m happy; I’m happy because I sing.
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Earnestness means willingness to live with energy, though energy bring pain.
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If you want to change your life, do it flamboyantly and start immediately.
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The teachers of this country, one may say, have its future in their hands.
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