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The lunatic’s visions of horror are all drawn from the material of daily fact.

William James

Man lives in only one small room of the enormous house of his consciousness.
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Men Small Rooms Thinking
Man alone of all the creatures of earth can change his own pattern. Man alone is the architect of his own destiny.
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Destiny Men Tree
Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
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Inspirational Positive Success
So it is with children who learn to read fluently and well: They begin to take flight into whole new worlds as effortlessly as young birds take to the sky.
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Children Effortless Reading Sky
The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly.
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Attitude Mean Ugly
If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.
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Leadership Motivation Philosophical
The true’to put it very briefly, is only the expedient in the way of our thinking, just as ‘the right’ is only the expedient in the way of our behaving.
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Briefly Thinking True Way
The total possible consciousness may be split into parts which co-exist but mutually ignore each other.
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Consciousness May Splits
The first lecture in psychology that I ever heard was the first I ever gave.
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Firsts Lecture Psychology
No one sees further into a generalization than his own knowledge of detail extends.
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Details Generalization Knowledge
Tension is a habit. Relaxing is a habit. Bad habits can be broken, good habits formed.
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Broken Funny Habit
Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.
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Clever Motivational Procrastination
Genius… means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.
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Creativity Mean Science
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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Happiness Laughter Men
To change ones life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly.
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Change Life Philosophical
There can be no existence of evil as a force to the healthy-minded individual.
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Evil Healthy Individual

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