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We can change our circumstances by a mere change of our attitude.

William James

The intellectual life of man consists almost wholly in his substitution of conceptual order for the perceptual order in which his experience originally comes.
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Intellectual Men Order
The minute a man ceases to grow, no matter what his years, that minute he begins to be old.
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Growth Men Years
Pure experience’ is the name I gave to the immediate flux of life which furnishes the material to our later reflection with its conceptual categories.
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Flux Names Reflection
We are proud of a human nature that could be so passionately extreme, but we shrink from advising others to follow the example.
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Example Human Nature Proud
If you give appreciation to people, you win their goodwill. But more important than that, practicing this philosophy has made a different person of me.
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Appreciation Attitude Philosophy
Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.
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Believe Faith Philosophical
A new position of responsibility will usually show a man to be a far stronger creature than was supposed.
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Men Responsibility Stronger
Since you make evil or good by your own thoughts, it is your ruling of your thoughts which proves to be your principal concern.
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Evil Prove Ruling
When thoughts do not neutralize an undesirable emotion, action will.
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Action Emotion Inspiration
The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.
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Inspirational Motivational Relationship
The discovery of the power of our thoughts will prove to be the most important discovery of our time
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Discovery Important Positive
The mind, in short, works on the data it receives very much as the sculptor works on his block of stone.
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Block Data Mind
Most unhappiness is caused because people listen to themselves… instead of talking to themselves.
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People Talking Unhappiness
Pretend what we may, the whole man within us is at work when we form our philosophical opinions.
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Men Philosophical Philosophy
An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.
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Ethics Philosophical Quality
Wisdom is learning what to overlook.
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Learning Philosophical Wisdom

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