Wallace D. Wattles Quotes

Whatever you habitually think yourself to be, that you are. You must form, now, a greater and better habit; you must form a conception of yourself as a being of limitless power, and habitually think that you are that being. It is the habitual, not the periodical thought that decides your destiny.

Wallace D. Wattles

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• I'm very inspired by him-it was my father who taught us that an immigrant must work twice as hard as anybody else, that he must never give up.

  

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• The essential function of art is moral. But a passionate, implicit morality, not didactic. A morality which changes the blood, rather than the mind.

  

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• We should preserve every scrap of biodiversity as priceless while we learn to use it and come to understand what it means to humanity.

  

  E. O. Wilson
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• It is impossible to speak in such a way that you cannot be misunderstood.

  

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• I don't know how people box for a living. I don't know how they can just hurt people for a living and be OK with it.

  

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• I think, more than anything else, my dog's death has made me grow up. I find myself thinking about the world in a more serious way.

  

  Zendaya
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• MacAllister wasn’t always right, but he was smart enough to know that. He was willing to change his mind when the evidence pointed in a different direction. That fact alone put MacAllister very nearly in a class by himself.

  

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• When we patch things up,They say a job well done.But when we ask the question whyWhere did the rips come from?,They say we are subversive,And extreme, of course.We are just trying to track a problem to its source.

  

  Ani DiFranco
  • Up
  • Trying
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• All the busy little creatureschasing out their destinies.Living in their poolsthey soon forget about the sea... - Natural Science (1980)

  

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  • Mind
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• Whatever you habitually think yourself to be, that you are. You must form, now, a greater and better habit; you must form a conception of yourself as a being of limitless power, and habitually think that you are that being. It is the habitual, not the periodical thought that decides your destiny.

  

  Wallace D. Wattles
  • Thinking
  • Destiny
  • Personal