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.
WILLIAM JAMESAsceticism may be a mere expression of organic hardihood, disgusted with too much ease.
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Once you accept an idea, it’s an idea whose time has come.
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Most unhappiness is caused because people listen to themselves… instead of talking to themselves.
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If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.
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Objective evidence and certitude are doubtless very fine ideals to play with, but where on this moonlit and dream-visited planet are they found?
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Man can alter his life by altering his thinking.
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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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Where is it, this present? It has melted in our grasp, fled ere we could touch it, gone in the instant of becoming.
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What would be better for us to believe!’ This sounds very like a definition of truth
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Effort is the one strictly undervalued and original contribution we make to this world.
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Earnestness means willingness to live with energy, though energy bring pain.
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Democracy is still upon its trial. The civic genius of our people is its only bulwark.
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Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive.
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A paradise of inward tranquility seems to be faith’s usual result.
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Fear of life in one form or another is the great thing to exorcise.
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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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Procrastination is attitude’s natural assassin. There’s nothing so fatiguing as an uncompleted task
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The question of free will is insoluble on strictly psychological grounds.
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Deepest principle of human nature is to be appreciated.
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The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.
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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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The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
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A new opinion counts as true just in proportion as it gratifies the individual’s desire to assimilate the novel in his experience to his beliefs in stock
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In all primary school work the principle of multiple impressions is well recognized.
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When you have broken the reality into concepts you never can reconstruct it in its wholeness.
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Wisdom is learning what to overlook.
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Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.
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