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The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one. ”
Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind. ”
There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision. ”
Time itself comes in drops. ”
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. ”
Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system. Our thoughts and beliefs pass, so long as nothing challenges them, just as bank-notes pass so long as nobody refuses them. ”
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. ”
Truth is what works. ”
Individuality is founded in feeling; and the recesses of feeling, the darker, blinder strata of character, are the only places in the world in which we catch real fact in the making, and directly perceive how events happen, and how work is actually done. ”
The hell to be endured hereafter, of which theology tells, is no worse than the hell we make for ourselves in this world by habitually fashioned our characters in the wrong way. ”