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We can change our circumstances by a mere change of our attitude.

William James

We may be in the Universe as dogs and cats are in our libraries, seeing the books and hearing the conversation, but having no inkling of the meaning of it all.
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Book Cat Conservations Dog
Most unhappiness is caused because people listen to themselves… instead of talking to themselves.
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People Talking Unhappiness
Success plus Self-esteem equals Pretensions.
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Congratulations Self Esteem Success
The strenuous life tastes better
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Better Strenuous Taste
The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.
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Fear Happiness Stress
Our beliefs and our attention are the same fact.
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Attention Belief Facts
The mind, in short, works on the data it receives very much as the sculptor works on his block of stone.
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Block Data Mind
There can be no existence of evil as a force to the healthy-minded individual.
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Evil Healthy Individual
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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Health Love Wings
It seems the natural thing for us to listen whilst the Europeans talk.
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Natural Political Politics
The ‘I think’ which Kant said must be able to accompany all my objects, is the ‘I breathe’ which actually does accompany them.
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Able Accompanying Thinking
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
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Positive Wisdom Wise
Footnotes — little dogs yapping at the heels of the text
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Dog Littles Writing
[Religion is] the attempt to be in harmony with an unseen order of things.
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Grace Order Unseen
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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Men Mind Way
The sovereign cure for worry is prayer.
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Philosophical Prayer Worry

We can change our circumstances by a mere change of our attitude.

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