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The more of the details of our daily life we can hand over to the effortless custody of automatism, the more our higher powers of mind will be set free for their own proper work.
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Never suffer an exception to occur till the new habit is securely rooted in your life.
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the great thing in all education is to make our nervous system our ally instead of our enemy
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The spectacle of effort is what awakens and sustains our own effort.
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Ideal aspirations are not enough, when uncombined with pluck and will.
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Despair lames most people, but it wakes others fully up.
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It is notorious that a single successful effort of moral volition, such as saying 'no' to some habitual temptation, or performing some courageous act, will launch a man on a higher level of energy for days and weeks, will give him a new range of power.
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Excitements, ideas, and efforts, in a word, are what carry us over the dam.
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The busiest man needs no more hours of rest than the idler.
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The transformation, moreover, is a chronic one: the new level of energy becomes permanent.
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We live subject to arrest by degrees of fatigue which we have come only from habit to obey.
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We have evidently tapped a level of new energy, masked until then by the fatigue-obstacle usually obeyed.
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The normal opener of deeper and deeper levels of energy is the will.