The lunatic’s visions of horror are all drawn from the material of daily fact.
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Tension is a habit. Relaxing is a habit. Bad habits can be broken, good habits formed.
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If you want to change your life, do it flamboyantly and start immediately.
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The power to move the world is in the subconcious mind
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Men habitually use only a small part of the power which they actually possess.
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If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.
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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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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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In the matter of belief, we are all extreme conservatives.
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Religious awe is the same organic thrill which we feel in a forest at twilight, or in a mountain gorge.
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Procrastination is attitude’s natural assassin. There’s nothing so fatiguing as an uncompleted task
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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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He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed.
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Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
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No one sees further into a generalization than his own knowledge of detail extends.
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The discovery of the power of our thoughts will prove to be the most important discovery of our time
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