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" Every man who possibly can should force himself to a holiday of a full month in a year, whether he feels like taking it or not. "
William James
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" 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. "
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" To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal. "
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" A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain. "
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" There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision. "
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" The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes. "
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" Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice. "
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" The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community. "
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" I don't sing because I'm happy; I'm happy because I sing. "
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" There is an organic affinity between joyousness and tenderness, and their companionship in the saintly life need in no way occasion surprise. "
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" Action may not bring happiness but there is no happiness without action. "
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" This life is worth living, we can say, since it is what we make it. "
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" The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook. "
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" The history of philosophy is to a great extent that of a certain clash of human temperaments. "
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" Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact. "
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" It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome. "
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" We are doomed to cling to a life even while we find it unendurable. "
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" 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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" The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated. "
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" 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. "
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" There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man's lack of faith in his true Self. "
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" To be a real philosopher all that is necessary is to hate some one else's type of thinking. "
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" Where quality is the thing sought after, the thing of supreme quality is cheap, whatever the price one has to pay for it. "
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" Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second. "
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" The world we see that seems so insane is the result of a belief system that is not working. To perceive the world differently, we must be willing to change our belief system, let the past slip away, expand our sense of now, and dissolve the fear in our minds. "
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" The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives. "
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" 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. "
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