Mankind’s common instinct for reality has always held the world to be essentially a theatre for heroism.
WILLIAM JAMESThe impulse to take life strivingly is indestructible in the race.
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We can change our circumstances by a mere change of our attitude.
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Science, like life, feeds on its own decay. New facts burst old rules; then newly divined conceptions bind old and new together into a reconciling law.
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We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.
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It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.
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The minute a man ceases to grow, no matter what his years, that minute he begins to be old.
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There’s nothing so absurd that if you repeat it often enough, people will believe it.
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Lives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or being.
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Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
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Pure experience’ is the name I gave to the immediate flux of life which furnishes the material to our later reflection with its conceptual categories.
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The greatest weapon we have to combat stress is the ability to choose our thoughts.
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Our view of the world is truly shaped by what we decide to hear.
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The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly.
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There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood bu those who hear it.
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Our beliefs and our attention are the same fact.
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The power to move the world is in the subconcious mind
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