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Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.

William James

A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.
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Life Stay Strong Ties
Our view of the world is truly shaped by what we decide to hear.
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Decide Shaped Views World
As long as there are postmen, life will have zest.
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Expectations Long Zest
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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Book Cat Conservations Dog
Most unhappiness is caused because people listen to themselves… instead of talking to themselves.
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People Talking Unhappiness
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
Our intelligence cannot wall itself up alive, like a pupa in a chrysalis. It must at any cost keep on speaking terms with the universe that engendered it.
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Alive Cost Wall
When you have broken the reality into concepts you never can reconstruct it in its wholeness.
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Broken Concepts Reality
Organization and method mean much, but contagious human characters mean more in a university.
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Character Mean Organization
You must bring out of each word its practical cash-value, set it at work within the stream of your experience.
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Cash Experience Stream
Genius is the capacity for seeing relationships where lesser men see none.
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Capacity Genius Men
Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
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Encouraging Life Positive
I am well aware how odd it must seem to some of you to hear me say that an idea is true so long as to believe it is profitable to our lives
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Believe Ideas Truth
There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.
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Inspirational Philosophical Sadness
Our beliefs are really rules for action.
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Action Belief Really Rules
The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly.
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Attitude Mean Ugly

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