If you want to change your life, do it flamboyantly and start immediately.
WILLIAM JAMESThe God of many men is little more than their court of appeal against the damnatory judgment passed on their failures by the opinion of the world.
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Genius is the capacity for seeing relationships where lesser men see none.
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The sovereign cure for worry is prayer.
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Circumstance does not make me, it reveals me.
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Man can alter his life by altering his thinking.
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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.
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We must be careful not to confuse data with the abstractions we use to analyse them.
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The ultimate test of what a truth means is the conduct it dictates or inspires.
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We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.
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Men habitually use only a small part of the power which they actually possess.
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I myself believe that the evidence for God lies primarily in inner personal experiences.
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The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
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So to feel brave, act as if we were brave, use all our will to that end…and a courage-fit will very likely replace the fit of fear.
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The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.
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Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system
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It is very important that teachers should realize the importance of habit.
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