Procrastination is attitude's natural assassin. There's nothing so fatiguing as an uncompleted task
Need and struggle are what excite and inspire us; our hour of triumph is what brings the void.
To change ones life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly.
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.
a man does not cry because he is sad, he is sad because he cries
No decision is, in itself, a decision.
An experience, perceptual or conceptual, must conform to reality in order to be true
Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed. which give happiness. Thomas Jefferson We never enjoy perfect happiness; our most fortunate successes are mingled with sadness; some anxieties always perplex the reality of our satisfaction.
Science as such assuredly has no authority, for she can only say what is, not what is not.
Spiritual energy flows in and produces effects, psychological or material, within the phenomenal world.
A man has as many social selves as there are individuals who recognize him.
The ultimate test of what a truth means is the conduct it dictates or inspires.
Our esteem for facts has not neutralized in us all religiousness. It is itself almost religious. Our scientific temper is devout.
How pleasant is the day when we give up striving to be young-or slender.
The instinct of ownership is fundamental in man's nature.
We and God have business with each other, and in opening ourselves to God's influence our deepest destiny is fulfilled.
Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.
For the moment, what we attend to is reality.
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.
There is but one indefectibly certain truth , and that is the truth that pyrrhonistic scepticism itself leaves standing, the truth that the present phenomenon of consciousness exists.
We must make automatic and habitual, as early as possible, as many useful actions as we can, and as carefully guard against the growing into ways that are likely to be disadvantageous.
Every individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony.
The world is all the richer for having a devil in it, so long as we keep our foot upon his neck.
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 which he habitually fails to use.
We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.
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