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

William James

When once a decision is reached and execution is the order of the day, dismiss absolutely all responsibility and care about the outcome.
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Decision Order Responsibility
The deepest longing in the human breast is the desire for appreciation.
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Appreciation Creativity Desire
Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day.
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Effort Exercise Life Love
Objective evidence and certitude are doubtless very fine ideals to play with, but where on this moonlit and dream-visited planet are they found?
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Dream Play Science
Touch is the alpha and omega of affection.
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Affection Alpha Omega
The most peculiar social self which one is apt to have is in the mind of the person one is in love with.
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Mind Peculiar Self
Impulse without reason is enough, and reason without impulse is a poor makeshift.
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Enough Poor Reason
To change ones life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly.
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Change Life Philosophical
The education of attention would be an education par excellence
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Attention Education Excellence
Science, like life, feeds on its own decay. New facts burst old rules; then newly divined conceptions bind old and new together into a reconciling law.
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Law Science Together
To neglect the wise sayings of great thinkers is to deny ourselves the truest education.
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Deny Neglect Wise
I am well aware how odd it must seem to some of you to hear me say that an idea is true so long as to believe it is profitable to our lives
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Believe Ideas Truth
With no attempt there can be no failure; with no failure no humiliation.
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Attempt Failure Humiliation No
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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Discovery Men Mind
Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being.
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Circles People Sith
A sense of humor is just common sense dancing.
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Common Dance Humor Sense

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

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