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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 deepest human need is the need to be appreciated.
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Appreciated Humans Needs
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
The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.
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Fear Happiness Stress
Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.
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Clever Motivational Procrastination
Objective evidence and certitude are doubtless very fine ideals to play with, but where on this moonlit and dream-visited planet are they found?
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Dream Play Science
Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system
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Credit Facts Truth
Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.
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Hate Inspirational Life
If merely ‘feeling good’ could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.
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Alcohol Feel Feelings Good
We forget that every good that is worth possessing must be paid for in strokes of daily effort.
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Best Effort Forget Hard Work
The first lecture in psychology that I ever heard was the first I ever gave.
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Firsts Lecture Psychology
Fear of life in one form or another is the great thing to exorcise.
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Fears Form Great Life Things
True to her inveterate habit, rationalism reverts to ‘principles,’ and thinks that when an abstraction once is named, we own an oracular solution.
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Habit Principles Thinking
All religions begin with the cry Help.
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Cry Helping Religion
Faith is synonymous with working hypothesis.
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Faith Hypothesis
Language is the most imperfect and expensive means yet discovered for communicating thought.
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Imperfect Language Mean
Just for today I will exercise my soul in three ways: I will do somebody a good turn and not get found out. I will do at least two things I don’t want to do
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Exercise Inspiration Somebody Two

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