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The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.

William James

You can alter your life by altering the state of your mind.
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Altering Life Mind States
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
There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood bu those who hear it.
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Lying Misunderstood Statistics
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 ‘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
We must be careful not to confuse data with the abstractions we use to analyse them.
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Data Powerful Science
The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.
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Fear Happiness Stress
Circumstance does not make me, it reveals me.
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Character Circumstances Enough Repeated
The first lecture in psychology that I ever heard was the first I ever gave.
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Firsts Lecture Psychology
For the moment, what we attend to is reality.
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Attend Moments Reality
Most unhappiness is caused because people listen to themselves… instead of talking to themselves.
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People Talking Unhappiness
Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.
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Clever Motivational Procrastination
The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.
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Inspirational Motivational Relationship
Since you make evil or good by your own thoughts, it is your ruling of your thoughts which proves to be your principal concern.
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Evil Prove Ruling
Democracy is still upon its trial. The civic genius of our people is its only bulwark.
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Democracy Genius People
Our view of the world is truly shaped by what we decide to hear.
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Decide Shaped Views World
The minute a man ceases to grow, no matter what his years, that minute he begins to be old.
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Growth Men Years
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
If you give appreciation to people, you win their goodwill. But more important than that, practicing this philosophy has made a different person of me.
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Appreciation Attitude Philosophy
To consider hypotheses is surely always better than to dogmatize ins blaue hinein
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Dogmatize Hypothesis Truth
The world is all the richer for having a devil in it, so long as we keep our foot upon his neck.
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Devil Feet Long
Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive.
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Alive Attitude Authenticity
New habits can be launched.
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Habit New Launched
A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.
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Life Stay Strong Ties
Truth for us is simply a collective name for verification processes
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Names Process Truth
To some of us the thought of God is like a sort of quiet music playing in the background of the mind.
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Mind Philosophy Quiet
The instant field of the present is at all times what I call the ‘pure’ experience. It is only virtually or potentially either object or subject as yet.
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All Fields Instant Time

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