Man lives in only one small room of the enormous house of his consciousness.
WILLIAM JAMESThe greatest weapon we have to combat stress is the ability to choose our thoughts.
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The lunatic’s visions of horror are all drawn from the material of daily fact.
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Our beliefs and our attention are the same fact.
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No living person is sunk so low as not to be imitated by somebody.
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Language is the most imperfect and expensive means yet discovered for communicating thought.
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Procrastination is attitude’s natural assassin. There’s nothing so fatiguing as an uncompleted task
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Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being.
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For the moment, what we attend to is reality.
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Circumstance does not make me, it reveals me.
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A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.
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All of our life is but a mass of small habits – practical, emotional, intellectual and spiritual – that bear us irresistibly toward our destiny.
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A man with no philosophy in him is the most inauspicious and unprofitable of all possible social mates.
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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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Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.
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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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Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
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