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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

For the moment, what we attend to is reality.
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Attend Moments Reality
All natural happiness thus seems infected with a contradiction. The breath of the sepulchre surrounds it.
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Contradiction Happiness Natural
We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.
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Opposites Statement Truth
The deepest longing in the human breast is the desire for appreciation.
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Appreciation Creativity Desire
The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly.
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Attitude Mean Ugly
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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Choices Differences Men Savage
As long as there are postmen, life will have zest.
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Expectations Long Zest
No bell in us tolls to let us know for certain when truth is in our grasp.
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Bells Tolls Truth
All of our life is but a mass of small habits – practical, emotional, intellectual and spiritual – that bear us irresistibly toward our destiny.
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Destiny Military Spiritual
Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day.
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Effort Exercise Life Love
But facts are facts, and if we only get enough of them theyare sure to combine.
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Combine Enough Fact Facts
Religion is a monumental chapter in the history of human egotism.
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Chapters Egotism Religion
Focus on increasing service. Becoming great where you are. Pile in the wood. The heat will follow.
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Becoming Great Focus Woods
The drunken consciousness is one bit of the mystic consciousness, and our total opinion of it must find its place in our opinion of that larger whole.
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Consciousness Mystic Opinion
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
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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Ideas Men Twenties

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