Man alone of all the creatures of earth can change his own pattern. Man alone is the architect of his own destiny.
WILLIAM JAMESAsceticism may be a mere expression of organic hardihood, disgusted with too much ease.
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How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.
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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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All religions begin with the cry Help.
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We want all our friends to tell us our bad qualities; it is only the particular ass that does so whom we can’t tolerate.
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No living person is sunk so low as not to be imitated by somebody.
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Everything which is demanded is by that fact a good.
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All natural happiness thus seems infected with a contradiction. The breath of the sepulchre surrounds it.
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Religion . . . shall mean for us the feelings, acts and experiences of individual men in their solitude.
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Procrastination is attitude’s natural assassin. There’s nothing so fatiguing as an uncompleted task
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New habits can be launched.
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A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.
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The most peculiar social self which one is apt to have is in the mind of the person one is in love with.
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Experience, as we know, has a way of boiling over, and making us correct our present formulas.
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If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.
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There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood bu those who hear it.
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