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I take it that no man is educated who has never dallied with the thought of suicide.
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Success plus Self-esteem equals Pretensions.
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To know psychology, therefore, is absolutely no guarantee that we shall be good teacher.
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There is a stream, a succession of states, or waves, or fields (or whatever you please to call them), of knowledge, of…
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Man, whatever else he may be, is primarily a practical being, whose mind is given him to aid in adapting him to…
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No reception without reaction, no impression without correlative expression, -this is the great maxim which the teacher ought never to forget.
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Habit is second nature, or rather . . . ten times nature.
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We must make automatic and habitual, as early as possible, as many useful actions as we can, and as carefully guard against…
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It is astonishing how many mental operations we can explain when we have once grasped the principles of association
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The entire routine of our memorized acquisitions is a consequence of nothing but the Law of Contiguity. The words of a poem,…
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Any object not interesting in itself may become interesting through becoming associated with an object in which an interest already exists. The…
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An idea will infect another with its own emotional interest when they have become both associated together into any sort of a…
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There’s a place inside of you where you can retreat and enjoy perfect stillness.
— Doreen Virtue
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If the Lord sets you to guard a lonely post in perfect stillness from all active work, you ought to be just…
— Hannah Whitall Smith
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Look for the things in your life that bring you stillness and happiness, not the things that make you crazy. Look inside…
— Frederick Lenz
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The waking dreams of life as most people know them are spiritual experiences, but there is another order of spiritual experience and…
— Frederick Lenz
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Greed, fear, lust, hate, jealousy, these are part of reality too ... bundles of consciousness wrapped tightly, barbs on which you can…
— Frederick Lenz
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We live in an almost perfect stillness and work with incredible urgency.
— Rem Koolhaas
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Listen. To live is to be marked. To live is to change, to acquire the words of a story, and that is…
— Barbara Kingsolver
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The perfect stillness of the night was thrilled by a more solemn silence. The darkness held a presence that was all the…
— William James
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