You can alter your life by altering the state of your mind.
WILLIAM JAMESThe great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
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When you have broken the reality into concepts you never can reconstruct it in its wholeness.
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The total possible consciousness may be split into parts which co-exist but mutually ignore each other.
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Philosophy lives in words, but truth and fact well up into our lives in ways that exceed verbal formulation.
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Habit is a second nature, or rather, it is ‘ten times nature’.
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There can be no existence of evil as a force to the healthy-minded individual.
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The general law is that no mental modification ever occurs which is not accompanied or followed by a bodily change.
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The lunatic’s visions of horror are all drawn from the material of daily fact.
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Focus on increasing service. Becoming great where you are. Pile in the wood. The heat will follow.
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We hear the words we have spoken, feel our own blow as we give it, or read in the bystander’s eyes the success or failure of our conduct.
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If merely ‘feeling good’ could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.
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The great thing, then, in all education, is to make our nervous system our ally instead of our enemy.
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If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.
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Fear of life in one form or another is the great thing to exorcise.
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A man with no philosophy in him is the most inauspicious and unprofitable of all possible social mates.
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If you want to change your life, do it flamboyantly and start immediately.
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