• Nature

  Action seems to follow feeling, but really action and feeling go together; and by regulating the action, which is under the more direct control of the will, we can indirectly regulate the feeling, which is not.

  3.1 · 28 votes · 137 reads

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• Thought and Reason

  An idea, to be suggestive, must come to the individual with the force of revelation.

  4.8 · 52 votes · 117 reads

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• Thought and Reason

  As a rule we disbelieve all the facts and theories for which we have no use.

  3.3 · 27 votes · 44 reads

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• Various

  As there is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood by those who hear it, so reasonable arguments, challenges to magnanimity, and appeals to sympathy or justice, are folly when we are dealing with human crocodiles and boa-constrictors.

  4.2 · 49 votes · 117 reads

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• Thought and Reason

  Belief creates the actual fact.

  4.2 · 32 votes · 55 reads

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• Thought and Reason

  Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.

  4.1 · 7 votes · 39 reads

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• Various

  Compared to what we ought to be, we are only half awake. We are making use of only a small part of our physical and mental resources. Stating the thing broadly, the human individual thus lives far within his limits. He possesses power of various sorts whi

  4.6 · 31 votes · 183 reads

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• Nature

  Do something everyday for no other reason than you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test.

  4.4 · 44 votes · 116 reads

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• Thought and Reason

  Events are influenced by our very great desires.

  4.0 · 14 votes · 98 reads

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• Nature

  Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.

  4.5 · 52 votes · 65 reads

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• Time

  Everyone knows that on any given day there are energies slumbering in him which the incitement's of that day do not call forth. Compared with what we ought to be, we are only half awake. The human individual usually lives far within his limits.

  4.1 · 14 votes · 99 reads

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• Feelings

  Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.

  3.4 · 13 votes · 27 reads

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• Art and Culture

  Footnotes - little dogs yapping at the heels of the text

  3.0 · 37 votes · 169 reads

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• Various

  For morality life is a war, and the service of the highest is a sort of cosmic patriotism which also calls for volunteers.

  4.3 · 27 votes · 13 reads

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• Virtues

  Genius... means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an inhabitual way.

  3.0 · 44 votes · 3 reads

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• Various

  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, and saves the children of fortune from the envious uprisings of the poor.

  4.5 · 23 votes · 161 reads

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• Time

  How can the moribund old man reason back to himself the romance, the mystery, the imminence of great things with which our old earth tingled for him in the days when he was young and well?

  3.0 · 7 votes · 178 reads

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• Feelings

  Human beings are born into this little span of life of which the best thing is its friendship and intimacies, and soon their places will know them no more, and yet they leave their friendships and intimacies with no cultivation, to grow as they will by th

  4.3 · 34 votes · 1 reads

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• Feelings

  I am done with great things and big plans, great institutions and big success. I am for those tiny, invisible loving human forces that work from individual to individual, creeping through the crannies of the world like so many rootlets, or like the capill

  3.6 · 38 votes · 59 reads

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• Virtues

  I have often thought the best way to define a man's character would be to seek out the particular mental or moral attitude in which, when it comes upon him, he felt himself most deeply and intensely active and alive. At such moments there is a voice insid

  3.4 · 44 votes · 14 reads

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• Thought and Reason

  I know that you, ladies and gentlemen, have a philosophy, each and all of you, and that the most interesting and important thing about you is the way in which it determines the perspective in your several worlds.

  4.1 · 52 votes · 76 reads

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• Nature

  I will act as if what I do makes a difference.

  4.2 · 60 votes · 187 reads

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• Time

  If any organism fails to fulfill its potentialities, it becomes sick.

  3.1 · 39 votes · 131 reads

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• Society

  If merely ''feeling good'' could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.

  4.2 · 7 votes · 94 reads

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• Thought and Reason

  If this life be not a real fight, in which something is eternally gained... it is no better than a game of private theatricals from which one may withdraw at will.

  4.2 · 23 votes · 1 reads

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• Feelings

  If you believe that feeling bad or worrying long enough will change a past or future event, then you are residing on another planet with a different reality system.

  3.1 · 22 votes · 143 reads

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• Thought and Reason

  If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.

  3.3 · 37 votes · 91 reads

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• Virtues

  If you want a quality, act as if you already had it. Try the ''as if'' technique.

  3.9 · 30 votes · 105 reads

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• Nature

  If you want a trait, act as if you already have the trait.

  5.0 · 25 votes · 131 reads

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• Nature

  Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.

  3.7 · 59 votes · 13 reads

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• Virtues

  It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.

  4.1 · 13 votes · 71 reads

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• Virtues

  It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again.

  3.8 · 39 votes · 3 reads

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• Feelings

  It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.

  3.1 · 19 votes · 50 reads

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• Virtues

  Knowledge about life is one thing; effective occupation of a place in life, with its dynamic currents passing through your being, is another.

  5.0 · 59 votes · 84 reads

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• Various

  Men's activities are occupied into ways - in grappling with external circumstances and in striving to set things at one in their own topsy-turvy mind.

  4.1 · 44 votes · 108 reads

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• Time

  Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being. They make very small use of their possible consciousness, and of their soul's resources in general, much like a man who, out of his whol

  3.4 · 16 votes · 109 reads

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• Virtues

  Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second. Give your dreams all you've got and you'll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you.

  4.3 · 56 votes · 49 reads

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• Virtues

  No matter how full a reservoir of maxims one may possess, and no matter how good one's sentiments may be, if one has not taken advantage of every concrete opportunity to act, one's character may remain entirely unaffected for the better.

  4.9 · 31 votes · 19 reads

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• Society

  Only necessity understood, and bondage to the highest is identical with true freedom.

  3.5 · 15 votes · 45 reads

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• Various

  Our esteem for facts has not neutralized in us all religiousness. It is itself almost religious. Our scientific temper is devout.

  3.5 · 15 votes · 150 reads

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