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The education of attention would be an education par excellence

William James

Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.
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Hate Inspirational Life
If you want to change your life, do it flamboyantly and start immediately.
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Changing Immediately Life Want
Our beliefs and our attention are the same fact.
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Attention Belief Facts
There’s nothing so absurd that if you repeat it often enough, people will believe it.
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Believe People Propaganda
The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
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Ideas Men Twenties
We 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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Opposites Statement Truth
A paradise of inward tranquility seems to be faith’s usual result.
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Inward Paradise Usual
All natural goods perish. Riches take wings; fame is a breath; love is a cheat; youth and health and pleasure vanish.
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Health Love Wings
As long as there are postmen, life will have zest.
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Expectations Long Zest
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 true’to put it very briefly, is only the expedient in the way of our thinking, just as ‘the right’ is only the expedient in the way of our behaving.
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Briefly Thinking True Way
The world is all the richer for having a devil in it, so long as we keep our foot upon his neck.
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Devil Feet Long
The deepest hunger in human beings is the desire to be appreciated.
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Appreciate Desire Friendship
True ideas are those that we can assimilate, validate, corroborate, and verify. False ideas are those that we cannot
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Ideas Truth Verify
Our beliefs are really rules for action.
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Action Belief Really Rules
For the moment, what we attend to is reality.
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Attend Moments Reality

The education of attention would be an education par excellence

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