A man of sense is never discouraged by difficulties; he redoubles his industry and his diligence, he perseveres and infallibly prevails at last.
WILLIAM JAMESThe discovery of the power of our thoughts will prove to be the most important discovery of our time
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Asceticism may be a mere expression of organic hardihood, disgusted with too much ease.
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Owing to the fact that all experience is a process, no point of view can ever be the last one
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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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We can change our circumstances by a mere change of our attitude.
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Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.
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Where quality is the thing sought after, the thing of supreme quality is cheap, whatever the price one has to pay for it.
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The discovery of the power of our thoughts will prove to be the most important discovery of our time
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The ultimate test of what a truth means is the conduct it dictates or inspires.
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Habit is a second nature, or rather, it is ‘ten times nature’.
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Touch is the alpha and omega of affection.
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I don’t sing because I’m happy; I’m happy because I sing.
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There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man’s lack of faith in his true Self.
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The deepest hunger in human beings is the desire to be appreciated.
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Genius… means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.
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The world is all the richer for having a devil in it, so long as we keep our foot upon his neck.
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