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The intellectual life of man consists almost wholly in his substitution of conceptual order for the perceptual order in which his experience originally comes.

William James

Give your dreams all you’ve got, and you’ll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you.
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You can alter your life by altering the state of your mind.
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Altering Life Mind States
Man lives in only one small room of the enormous house of his consciousness.
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The difference between objective and subjective extension is one of relation to a context solely.
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Differences Extensions Relation
Genius is the capacity for seeing relationships where lesser men see none.
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Capacity Genius Men
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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Habit Principles Thinking
The general law is that no mental modification ever occurs which is not accompanied or followed by a bodily change.
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Pretend what we may, the whole man within us is at work when we form our philosophical opinions.
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The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
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Religion . . . shall mean for us the feelings, acts and experiences of individual men in their solitude.
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Our view of the world is truly shaped by what we decide to hear.
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We can change our circumstances by a mere change of our attitude.
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The greatest weapon we have to combat stress is the ability to choose our thoughts.
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Truth for us is simply a collective name for verification processes
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A sense of humor is just common sense dancing.
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Wisdom is learning what to overlook.
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