"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."

Habit, Habits, State, Walking, Will

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"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."

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"If I tell you another seven hundred times, maybe one of these days you might turn your clothes right side out when you put them in the hamper, eh?"

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"Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit."

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"Don't let your sins turn into bad habits."

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Eric Hoffer, American Writer

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"These then are my last words to you. Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact."

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"Our normal waking consciousness, rational consciousness as we call it, is but one special type of consciousness, whilst all about it, parted from it by the filmiest of screens, there lie potential forms of consciousness entirely different."

Lie

"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, which is not."

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"Genius in truth means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way."

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"To be a real philosopher all that is necessary is to hate some one else's type of thinking."

Hate

"Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice."

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"Success or failure depends more upon attitude than upon capacity successful men act as though they have accomplished or are enjoying something. Soon it becomes a reality. Act, look, feel successful, conduct yourself accordingly, and you will be amazed at the positive results."

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"We know the meaning so long as no one asks us to define it."

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"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

"Round about the accredited and orderly facts of every science there ever floats a sort of dust-cloud of exceptional observations, of occurrences minute and irregular and seldom met with, which it always proves more easy to ignore than to attend to... Anyone will renovate his science who will steadily look after the irregular phenomena, and when science is renewed, its new formulas often have more of the voice of the exceptions in them than of what were supposed to be the rules."

Science