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.
The deepest human need is the need to be appreciated.
We have to live today by what truth we can get today and be ready tomorrow to call it falsehood.
There is a voice inside which speaks and says, "This is the real me!"
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 whole bodily organism, should get into a habit of using and moving only his little finger.
We must make automatic and habitual, as early as possible, as many useful actions as we can. . . . The more of the details of our daily life we can hand over to the effortless custody of automatism, the more our higher powers of mind will be set free for their own proper work.
Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.
It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.
We with our lives are like islands in the sea... The islands also hang together through the ocean's bottom.
I take it that no man is educated who has never dallied with the thought of suicide.
Effort is a measure of a Man.
The sway of alcohol over mankind is unquestionably due to its power to stimulate the mystical faculties of human nature, usually crushed to earth by the cold facts and dry criticisms of the sober hour.
The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly. What can be more base and unworthy than the pining, puling, mumping mood, no matter by what outward ills it may have been engendered? What is more injurious to others? What less helpful as a way out of the difficulty? It but fastens and perpetuates the trouble which occasioned it, and increases the total evil of the situation. At all costs, then, we ought to reduce the sway of that mood; we ought to scout it in ourselves and others, and never show it tolerance.
Every sort of energy and endurance, of courage and capacity for handling life's evils, is set free in those who have religious faith.
Every time a resolve or a fine glow of feeling evaporates without bearing practical fruit is worse than a chance lost; it works to hinder future resolutions and emotions from taking the normal path of discharge. There is no more contemptible type of human character than that of the nerveless sentimentalist and dreamer, who spends his life in a weltering sea of sensibility and emotion, but who never does a manly concrete deed.
As the art of reading (after a certain stage in one's education) isthe art of skipping, so the art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
The mind, in short, works on the data it receives very much as the sculptor works on his block of stone.
In any project the important factor is your belief. Without belief, there can be no successful outcome.
Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day.
Compared to what we ought to be, we are half awake.
Most of us can learn to live in perfect comfort on higher levels of power. Everyone knows that on any given day there are energies slumbering in him which the incitements of that day do not call forth. Compared with what we ought to be, we are only half awake. It is evident that our organism has stored-up reserves of energy that are ordinarily not called upon - deeper and deeper strata of explosible material, ready for use by anyone who probes so deep. The human individual usually lives far within his limits.
With no attempt there can be no failure; with no failure no humiliation.
An idea, to be suggestive, must come to the individual with the force of revelation.
The discovery of the power of our thoughts will prove to be the most important discovery of our time
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