The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one.
WILLIAM JAMESTension is a habit. Relaxing is a habit. Bad habits can be broken, good habits formed.
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Success plus Self-esteem equals Pretensions.
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Facts’ are the bounds of human knowledge, set for it, not by it.
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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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Language is the most imperfect and expensive means yet discovered for communicating thought.
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Our intelligence cannot wall itself up alive, like a pupa in a chrysalis. It must at any cost keep on speaking terms with the universe that engendered it.
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It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.
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There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.
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Give your dreams all you’ve got, and you’ll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you.
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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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No bell in us tolls to let us know for certain when truth is in our grasp.
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The greatest weapon we have to combat stress is the ability to choose our thoughts.
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Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
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He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed.
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The minute a man ceases to grow, no matter what his years, that minute he begins to be old.
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