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.
WILLIAM JAMESFaith is synonymous with working hypothesis.
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Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive.
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We want all our friends to tell us our bad qualities; it is only the particular ass that does so whom we can’t tolerate.
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Success plus Self-esteem equals Pretensions.
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It seems the natural thing for us to listen whilst the Europeans talk.
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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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For morality life is a war, and the service of the highest is a sort of cosmic patriotism which also calls for volunteers.
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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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We with our lives are like islands in the sea, or like trees in the forest… But the trees also commingle their roots in the darkness underground.
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The God of many men is little more than their court of appeal against the damnatory judgment passed on their failures by the opinion of the world.
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Since you make evil or good by your own thoughts, it is your ruling of your thoughts which proves to be your principal concern.
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Touch is the alpha and omega of affection.
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Asceticism may be a mere expression of organic hardihood, disgusted with too much ease.
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Man can change his life simply by changing his attitude.
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Philosophy lives in words, but truth and fact well up into our lives in ways that exceed verbal formulation.
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A new idea is first condemned as ridiculous and then dismissed as trivial, until finally, it becomes what everybody knows.
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