Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
WILLIAM JAMESWe never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.
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Where quality is the thing sought after, the thing of supreme quality is cheap, whatever the price one has to pay for it.
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Real culture lives by sympathies and admirations, not by dislikes and disdains; under all misleading wrappings it pounces unerringly upon the human core.
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Our view of the world is truly shaped by what we decide to hear.
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There is but one unconditional commandment … to bring about the very largest total universe of good which we can see.
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You can alter your life by altering the state of your mind.
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The question of free will is insoluble on strictly psychological grounds.
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The strenuous life tastes better
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Men’s activities are occupied into ways — in grappling with external circumstances and in striving to set things at one in their own topsy-turvy mind.
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Our beliefs are really rules for action.
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Most unhappiness is caused because people listen to themselves… instead of talking to themselves.
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No living person is sunk so low as not to be imitated by somebody.
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The general law is that no mental modification ever occurs which is not accompanied or followed by a bodily change.
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Our faith is faith in someone else’s faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.
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The sovereign cure for worry is prayer.
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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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Earnestness means willingness to live with energy, though energy bring pain.
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New habits can be launched.
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We want all our friends to tell us our bad qualities; it is only the particular ass that does so whom we can’t tolerate.
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A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.
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The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one.
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To know an object is to lead to it through a context which the world provides
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Touch is the alpha and omega of affection.
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Both thought and feeling are determinants of conduct, and the same conduct may be determined either by feeling or by thought.
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Man alone of all the creatures of earth can change his own pattern. Man alone is the architect of his own destiny.
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We may be in the Universe as dogs and cats are in our libraries, seeing the books and hearing the conversation, but having no inkling of the meaning of it all.
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So our self-feeling in this world depends entirely on what we back ourselves to be and do.
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