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For the moment, what we attend to is reality.

William James

There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man’s lack of faith in his true Self.
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Esteem Failure Inspirational Self
Give your dreams all you’ve got, and you’ll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you.
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Basketball Dream Perseverance
The deepest longing in the human breast is the desire for appreciation.
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Appreciation Creativity Desire
The emotions aren’t always immediately subject to reason, but they are always immediately subject to action.
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Action Emotional Feelings
Where is it, this present? It has melted in our grasp, fled ere we could touch it, gone in the instant of becoming.
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Becoming Gone Instant
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
The education of attention would be an education par excellence
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Attention Education Excellence
Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
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Encouraging Life Positive
The discovery of the power of our thoughts will prove to be the most important discovery of our time
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Discovery Important Positive
To neglect the wise sayings of great thinkers is to deny ourselves the truest education.
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Deny Neglect Wise
If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.
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Leadership Motivation Philosophical
When you have broken the reality into concepts you never can reconstruct it in its wholeness.
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Broken Concepts Reality
Genius… means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.
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Creativity Mean Science
To give up pretensions is as blessed a relief as to get them ratified.
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Blessed Deception Giving Up
The total possible consciousness may be split into parts which co-exist but mutually ignore each other.
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Consciousness May Splits
Religion is a monumental chapter in the history of human egotism.
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Chapters Egotism Religion

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