If any organism fails to fulfill its potentialities, it becomes sick.
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.
The essence of genius is to know what to overlook.
In order to disprove the assertion that all crows are black, one white crow is sufficient.
The deepest longing in the human breast is the desire for appreciation.
If you give appreciation to people, you win their goodwill. But more important than that, practicing this philosophy has made a different person of me.
The strenuous life tastes better
Philosophy lives in words, but truth and fact well up into our lives in ways that exceed verbal formulation.
Lives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or being.
Genius... means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.
A man may not achieve everything he has dreamed, but he will never achieve anything great without having dreamed it first.
The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.
When thoughts do not neutralize an undesirable emotion, action will.
A new idea is first condemned as ridiculous and then dismissed as trivial, until finally, it becomes what everybody knows.
In the practical use of our intellect, forgetting is as important as remembering.
There's nothing so absurd that if you repeat it often enough, people will believe it.
Do every day or two something for no other reason than its difficulty.
One of the greatest discoveries of our time is that a man can alter the state of their life by altering the state of their mind.
Whenever you're in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is attitude.
Belief creates the actual fact.
The faculty of voluntarily bringing back a wandering attention, over and over again, is the very root of judgment, character, and will... An education which should improve this faculty would be the education par excellence.
A man of sense is never discouraged by difficulties; he redoubles his industry and his diligence, he perseveres and infallibly prevails at last.
It is as important to cultivate your silence power as your word power.
Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.
We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.
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