"All our life, so far as it..." - Quote by William James
All our life, so far as it has definite form, is but a mass of habits.
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“Millions of items in the outward order are present to my senses which never properly enter into my experience. Why? Because they have no interest for me. My experience is what I agree to attend to. Only those items which I notice shape my mind --without selective interest, experience is an utter chaos.”
“To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.”
“Men habitually use only a small part of the power which they actually possess.”
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“Until you have cultivated the habit of saying some kind word of those whom you do not admire, you will be neither successful nor happy.”
“I was warned to stop smoking, which I did, for two or three days, but it was too lonesome, and I have resumed - in a modified way - 4 smokes a day instead of 40. This will have a good effect. On the bank balance.”
“The way you cut your meat reflects the way you live.”
More on Life
“Time passes swiftly, but is it not joyous to see how great and growing is the treasure we have gathered together, amid the storms and stresses of so many eventful and to millions tragic and terrible years?”
“Learning acquired in youth arrests the evil of old age; and if you understand that old age has wisdom for its food, you will so conduct yourself in youth that your old age will not lack for nourishment.”
“There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind.”