“The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.”
Art“We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.”
Good“The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.”
Art“The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.”
Great“There must be something solemn, serious, and tender about any attitude which we denominate religious. If glad, it must not grin or snicker if sad, it must not scream or curse.”
Attitude“Pessimism leads to weakness, optimism to power.”
Power“Wisdom is learning what to overlook.”
Learning“Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.”
Motivational“Man lives for science as well as bread.”
Science“The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.”
Men“It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all. And often enough our faith beforehand in an uncertified result is the only thing that makes the result come true.”
Faith“If the grace of God miraculously operates, it probably operates through the subliminal door.”
God“We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.”
Good“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.”
Change“How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.”
Happiness“The sway of alcohol over mankind is unquestionably due to its power to stimulate the mystical faculties of human nature, usually crushed to earth by the cold facts and dry criticisms of the sober hour.”
Nature“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.”
Good“Time itself comes in drops.”
Time“The god whom science recognizes must be a God of universal laws exclusively, a God who does a wholesale, not a retail business. He cannot accommodate his processes to the convenience of individuals.”
Business“It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again.”
Age“The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.”
Life“There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man's lack of faith in his true Self.”
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