We are doomed to cling to a life even while we find it unendurable.
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.
There are 3 rules to follow if you want to change; (1) Start immediately, (2) Do it flamboyantly, (3) No exceptions.
Genius is the capacity for seeing relationships where lesser men see none.
Instinct leads, logic does but follow.
Strength is a facade for the proud, weakness is a mask for the lazy.
Life shall be built in doing and suffering and creating.
There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood bu those who hear it.
The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly.
I take it that no man is educated who has never dallied with the thought of suicide.
I myself believe that the evidence for God lies primarily in inner personal experiences.
Our beliefs are really rules for action.
A new position of responsibility will usually show a man to be a far stronger creature than was supposed.
We must not just patch and tinker with life. We must keep renewing it. Embrace novelty and uniqueness.
There are two lives, the natural and the spiritual, and we must lose the one before we can participate in the other.
So you see that the process of education, taken in a large way, may be described as nothing but the process of acquiring ideas or conceptions, the best educated mind being the mind which has the largest stock of them, ready to meet the largest possible variety of the emergencies of life. The lack of education means only the failure to have acquired them, and the consequent liability to be 'floored' and 'rattled' in the vicissitudes of experience.
Since you make evil or good by your own thoughts, it is your ruling of your thoughts which proves to be your principal concern.
The education of attention would be an education par excellence
It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.
There are no differences but differences of degree between different degrees of difference and no difference.
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.
You must bring out of each word its practical cash-value, set it at work within the stream of your experience.
He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed.
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.
To some of us the thought of God is like a sort of quiet music playing in the background of the mind.
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