The union of the mathematician with the poet, fervor with measure, passion with correctness, this surely is the ideal.
WILLIAM JAMESThe discovery of the power of our thoughts will prove to be the most important discovery of our time
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A man has as many social selves as there are individuals who recognize him.
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In all primary school work the principle of multiple impressions is well recognized.
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To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.
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Men’s activities are occupied into ways — in grappling with external circumstances and in striving to set things at one in their own topsy-turvy mind.
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To change ones life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly.
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The greatest weapon we have to combat stress is the ability to choose our thoughts.
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Genius is the capacity for seeing relationships where lesser men see none.
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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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The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.
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Man lives in only one small room of the enormous house of his consciousness.
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Owing to the fact that all experience is a process, no point of view can ever be the last one
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You can alter your life by altering the state of your mind.
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To improve the golden moment of opportunity, and catch the good that is within our reach, is the great art of life.
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Our view of the world is truly shaped by what we decide to hear.
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True ideas are those that we can assimilate, validate, corroborate, and verify. False ideas are those that we cannot
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