The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly.
WILLIAM JAMESMankind’s common instinct for reality has always held the world to be essentially a theatre for heroism.
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Men habitually use only a small part of the power which they actually possess.
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The power to move the world is in the subconcious mind
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Pretend what we may, the whole man within us is at work when we form our philosophical opinions.
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So to feel brave, act as if we were brave, use all our will to that end…and a courage-fit will very likely replace the fit of fear.
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It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.
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One of the greatest discoveries of our time is that a man can alter the state of their life by altering the state of their mind.
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How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.
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The teachers of this country, one may say, have its future in their hands.
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Asceticism may be a mere expression of organic hardihood, disgusted with too much ease.
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We can change our circumstances by a mere change of our attitude.
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A man of sense is never discouraged by difficulties; he redoubles his industry and his diligence, he perseveres and infallibly prevails at last.
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Lives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or being.
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Truth happens to an idea
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Our view of the world is truly shaped by what we decide to hear.
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Wisdom is learning what to overlook.
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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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True to her inveterate habit, rationalism reverts to ‘principles,’ and thinks that when an abstraction once is named, we own an oracular solution.
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Man, biologically considered … is simply the most formidable of all beasts of prey, and, indeed, the only one that preys systematically on its own kind.
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Experience, as we know, has a way of boiling over, and making us correct our present formulas.
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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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The emotions aren’t always immediately subject to reason, but they are always immediately subject to action.
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The difference between objective and subjective extension is one of relation to a context solely.
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Truth for us is simply a collective name for verification processes
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The total possible consciousness may be split into parts which co-exist but mutually ignore each other.
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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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We forget that every good that is worth possessing must be paid for in strokes of daily effort.
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