The greatest weapon we have to combat stress is the ability to choose our thoughts.
WILLIAM JAMESMan can change his life simply by changing his attitude.
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All natural goods perish. Riches take wings; fame is a breath; love is a cheat; youth and health and pleasure vanish.
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Man can change his life simply by changing his attitude.
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Impulse without reason is enough, and reason without impulse is a poor makeshift.
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The lunatic’s visions of horror are all drawn from the material of daily fact.
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Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.
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Our beliefs and our attention are the same fact.
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We are thinking beings, and we cannot exclude the intellect from participating in any of our functions.
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To some of us the thought of God is like a sort of quiet music playing in the background of the mind.
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The most immutable barrier in nature is between one man’s thoughts and another’s.
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If you want to change your life, do it flamboyantly and start immediately.
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To give up pretensions is as blessed a relief as to get them ratified.
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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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Modern man . . . has not ceased to be credulous . . . the need to believe haunts him.
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Fear of life in one form or another is the great thing to exorcise.
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It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.
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