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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

He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed.
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Encouragement Encouraging Inspirational
Man can alter his life by altering his thinking.
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Attitude Philosophical Positive
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
It seems the natural thing for us to listen whilst the Europeans talk.
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Natural Political Politics
Habit is thus the enormous fly-wheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. It alone is what keeps us all within the bounds of ordinance.
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Agents Ordinance Uprising Wheels
Truth, as any dictionary will tell you, is a property of certain of our ideas. It means their agreement, as falsity means their disagreement, with reality.
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Mean Reality Truth
The strenuous life tastes better
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Better Strenuous Taste
If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.
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Leadership Motivation Philosophical
We must be careful not to confuse data with the abstractions we use to analyse them.
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Data Powerful Science
We are stereotyped creatures, imitators and copiers of our past selves.
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Habit Past Self
Truth is something that happens to an idea.
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Happen Ideas Truth
The sovereign cure for worry is prayer.
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Philosophical Prayer Worry
Once you accept an idea, it’s an idea whose time has come.
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Accepting Daring Ideas
So to feel brave, act as if we were brave, use all our will to that end…and a courage-fit will very likely replace the fit of fear.
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Anticipation Brave Use
We can change our circumstances by a mere change of our attitude.
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Attitude Circumstances Mere

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