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The great thing, then, in all education, is to make our nervous system our ally instead of our enemy.
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William James (1842 - 1910), The Principles of Psychology
When we exercise self-control on a given occasion, we win for ourselves a little credibility we can rely on the next time around. Pretty soon we develop a reputation to ourselves that we want badly to uphold. With each test that we meet, our resolve gains momentum, fueled by the fear that we may succumb and establish a damaging precedent for our own weakness.
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Daniel Akst, We Have Met the Enemy: Self-Control in an Age of Excess, 2011
Be eager to fulfill the smallest duty and flee from transgression for one duty includes another and one transgression induces another transgression.
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The Talmud, We Have Met the Enemy: Self-Control in an Age of Excess, 2011
While we don't have much say over the desires that we have, we certainly can decide which we prefer-and then search for ways to act on that basis.
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Daniel Akst, We Have Met the Enemy: Self-Control in an Age of Excess, 2011
A handsome parson is fit for nothing but ti put ideas into the young woman's heads.
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Judith Brocklehurst, Darcy And Anne
A young lady who faints may awake chivalrous sentiments in gentleman; a young lady who weeps engenders only a strong desire to be elsewhere.
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Judith Brocklehurst, Darcy And Anne
No letter from a lover is ever more welcome, brings more joy, than a publisher's expression of interest does to a new author!
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Judith Brocklehurst, Darcy And Anne
Worrying about gray hair when your weight's soaring out of control is like mowing your lawn while your house is on fire.
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Edward Ugel, I'm With Fatty: Losing Fifty Pounds in Fifty Miserable Weeks, 2010
Control's a funny thing. It comes and goes. Some days I had it, some days I didn't. It felt like every time I did something healthy, I had this in satiable need to counterbalance it by doing something unhealthy.
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Edward Ugel, I'm With Fatty: Losing Fifty Pounds in Fifty Miserable Weeks, 2010
My ability to tolerate shame, to compartmentalize it, to swallow it, increased right along with my belt size. it came with the territory of being heavy. Obese people have a lifetime of experience with shame.
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Edward Ugel, I'm With Fatty: Losing Fifty Pounds in Fifty Miserable Weeks, 2010
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