The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
WILLIAM JAMESHow to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.
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At bottom, the whole concern of religion is with the manner of our acceptance of the universe.
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Man can change his life simply by changing his attitude.
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It seems the natural thing for us to listen whilst the Europeans talk.
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All natural happiness thus seems infected with a contradiction. The breath of the sepulchre surrounds it.
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Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
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The deepest longing in the human breast is the desire for appreciation.
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Our beliefs and our attention are the same fact.
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Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system
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We can change our circumstances by a mere change of our attitude.
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To know an object is to lead to it through a context which the world provides
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The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one.
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Impulse without reason is enough, and reason without impulse is a poor makeshift.
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There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man’s lack of faith in his true Self.
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How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.
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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.
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