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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.

William James

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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Intellectual Men Order
The union of the mathematician with the poet, fervor with measure, passion with correctness, this surely is the ideal.
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Math Passion Union
We can change our circumstances by a mere change of our attitude.
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Attitude Circumstances Mere
To consider hypotheses is surely always better than to dogmatize ins blaue hinein
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Dogmatize Hypothesis Truth
Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
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Encouraging Life Positive
There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood bu those who hear it.
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Lying Misunderstood Statistics
Truth is something that happens to an idea.
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Happen Ideas Truth
To improve the golden moment of opportunity, and catch the good that is within our reach, is the great art of life.
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Art Life Positive
Tension is a habit. Relaxing is a habit. Bad habits can be broken, good habits formed.
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Broken Funny Habit
Man can change his life simply by changing his attitude.
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Attitude Changing Men
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
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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Bystanders Eye Teaching
The mind, in short, works on the data it receives very much as the sculptor works on his block of stone.
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Block Data Mind
Our beliefs and our attention are the same fact.
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Attention Belief Facts
Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being.
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Circles People Sith
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
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Positive Wisdom Wise

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