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Emotional occasions, especial...

Emotional occasions, especially violent ones, are extremely potent in precipitating mental rearrangements. The sudden and explosive ways in which love, jealousy, guilt, fear, remorse, or anger can seize upon one are known to everybody. . . . And emotions that come in this explosive way seldom leave things as they found them.

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The sovereign voluntary path ...

The sovereign voluntary path to cheerfulness, if our spontaneous cheerfulness be lost, is to sit up cheerfully, to look round cheerfully, and to act and speak as if cheerfulness were already there. If such conduct does not make you soon feel cheerful, nothing else on that occasion can.

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Compared with what we ought t...

Compared with what we ought to be, we are only half awake. Our fires are damped, our drafts are checked. We are making use of only a small part of our possible mental and physical resources.

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We divert our attention from ...

We divert our attention from disease and death as much as we can; the slaughterhouses are huddled out of sight and never mentioned, so that the world we recognize officially in literature and in society is a poetic fiction far handsomer, cleaner and better than the world that really is.

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The absolute things, the last...

The absolute things, the last things, the overlapping things, are the truly philosophic concerns; all superior minds feel seriously about them, and the mind with the shortest views is simply the mind of the more shallow man.

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The whole drift of my educati...

The whole drift of my education goes to persuade me that the world of our present consciousness is only one out of many worlds of consciousness that exist.

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Since you make evil or good b...

Since you make evil or good by your own thoughts, it is your ruling of your thoughts which proves to be your principal concern.

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Philosophy is at once the mos...

Philosophy is at once the most sublime and the most trivial of human pursuits.

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The mind, in short, works on ...

The mind, in short, works on the data it receives very much as the sculptor works on his block of stone.

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Compared to what we ought to ...

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.

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The great use of life is to s...

The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it." "This life is worth living, we can say, since it is what we make it." "Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.

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There's nothing so absurd tha...

There's nothing so absurd that if you repeat it often enough, people will believe it.

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One of the greatest discoveri...

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.

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A genius is the man in whom y...

A genius is the man in whom you are least likely to find the power of attending to anything insipid or distasteful in itself. He breaks his engagements, leaves his letters unanswered, neglects his family duties incorrigibly, because he is powerless to turn his attention down and back from those more interesting trains of imagery with which his genius constantly occupies his mind.

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We with our lives are like is...

We with our lives are like islands in the sea... The islands also hang together through the ocean's bottom.

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The function of ignoring, of ...

The function of ignoring, of inattention, is as vital a factor in mental progress as the function of attention itself.

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Every individual existence go...

Every individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony.

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Everyone knows that on any gi...

Everyone knows that on any given day there are energies slumbering in him which the incitement's of that day do not call forth. Compared with what we ought to be, we are only half awake. The human individual usually lives far within his limits.

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In any project the important ...

In any project the important factor is your belief. Without belief, there can be no successful outcome.

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We can act as if there were a...

We can act as if there were a God; feel as if we were free; consider Nature as if she were full of special designs; lay plans as if we were to be immortal; and we find then that these words do make a genuine difference in our moral life.

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