Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.
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.
You can't out-perform your self-image.
The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.
It is your friends who make your world.
The function of ignoring, of inattention, is as vital a factor in mental progress as the function of attention itself.
Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.
A sense of humor is just common sense dancing.
Man can change his life simply by changing his attitude.
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.
We have grown literally afraid to be poor. We despise anyone who elects to be poor in order to simplify and save his inner life. If he does not join the general scramble and pant with the money-making street, we deem him spiritless and lacking in ambition
The transition from tenseness, self-responsibility, and worry, to equanimity, receptivity, and peace, is the most wonderful of all those shiftings of inner equilibrium, those changes of personal centre of energy, which I have analyzed so often; and the chief wonder of it is that it so often comes about, not by doing, but by simply relaxing and throwing the burden down.
Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being.
We and God have business with each other, and in opening ourselves to God's influence our deepest destiny is fulfilled.
Could the young but realize how soon they will become mere walking bundles of habits, they would give more heed to their conduct while in the plastic state.
Just for today I will exercise my soul in three ways: I will do somebody a good turn and not get found out. I will do at least two things I don't want to do
We don't laugh because we're happy - we're happy because we laugh.
A thing is important if anyone think it important.
To improve the golden moment of opportunity, and catch the good that is within our reach, is the great art of life.
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.
The aim of science is always to reduce complexity to simplicity.
No matter how full a reservoir of maxims one may possess, and no matter how good one's sentiments may be, if one has not taken advantage of every concrete opportunity to act, one's character may remain entirely unaffected for the better.
Philosophy lives in words, but truth and fact well up into our lives in ways that exceed verbal formulation.
If you want a confidence, act as if you already have it. Try the "as if" technique.
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