When a thing is new, people say: ‘It is not true.’ Later, when its truth becomes obvious, they say: ‘It is not important.’ Finally, when its importance cannot be denied, they say: ‘Anyway, it is not new.
Man can alter his life by altering his thinking.
Our faith is faith in someone else's faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.
The one who thinks over his experiences most, and weaves them into systematic relations with each other, will be the one with the best memory.
All our life, so far as it has definite form, is but a mass of habits.
Evil is a disease; and worry over disease is itself an additional form of disease, which only adds to the original complaint.
We are spinning our own fates, good or evil, never to be undone.
We must make automatic and habitual, as early as possible, as many useful actions as we can...in the acquisition of a new habit, we must take car to launch ourselves with as strong and decided initiative as possible. Never suffer an exception to occur till the new habit is securely rooted in your life.
There is an organic affinity between joyousness and tenderness.
Effort is the one strictly undervalued and original contribution we make to this world.
Feed the growing human being, feed him with the sort of experience for which from year to year he shows a natural craving, and he will develop in adult life a sounder sort of mental tissue, even though he may seem to be 'wasting' a great deal of his growing time, in the eyes of those for whom the only channels of learning are books and verbally communicated information.
Procrastination is attitude's natural assassin. There's nothing so fatiguing as an uncompleted task
Events are influenced by our very great desires.
A man has as many social selves as there are individuals who recognize him.
Need and struggle are what excite and inspire us; our hour of triumph is what brings the void.
The ultimate test of what a truth means is the conduct it dictates or inspires.
If an unusual necessity forces us onward, a surprising thing occurs. The fatigue gets worse up to a certain point, when, gradually or suddenly, it passes away and we are fresher than before!
The instinct of ownership is fundamental in man's nature.
For the moment, what we attend to is reality.
Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.
The hell to be endured hereafter, of which theology tells, is no worse than the hell we make for ourselves in this world by habitually fashioned our characters in the wrong way.
The general law is that no mental modification ever occurs which is not accompanied or followed by a bodily change.
No decision is, in itself, a decision.
The world is all the richer for having a devil in it, so long as we keep our foot upon his neck.
How pleasant is the day when we give up striving to be young-or slender.
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