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We want all our friends to tell us our bad qualities; it is only the particular ass that does so whom we can’t tolerate.

William James

To change ones life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly.
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Change Life Philosophical
Man can alter his life by altering his thinking.
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Attitude Philosophical Positive
The true’to put it very briefly, is only the expedient in the way of our thinking, just as ‘the right’ is only the expedient in the way of our behaving.
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Briefly Thinking True Way
The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.
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Inspirational Motivational Relationship
When you have broken the reality into concepts you never can reconstruct it in its wholeness.
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Broken Concepts Reality
It is very important that teachers should realize the importance of habit.
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Important Realizing Teacher
The first lecture in psychology that I ever heard was the first I ever gave.
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Firsts Lecture Psychology
We are proud of a human nature that could be so passionately extreme, but we shrink from advising others to follow the example.
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Example Human Nature Proud
A new idea is first condemned as ridiculous and then dismissed as trivial, until finally, it becomes what everybody knows.
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Change Dream Inspirational
The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.
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Fear Happiness Stress
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
Where quality is the thing sought after, the thing of supreme quality is cheap, whatever the price one has to pay for it.
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Pay Quality Supreme
The greatest weapon we have to combat stress is the ability to choose our thoughts.
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Combat Stress Weapons
Everything which is demanded is by that fact a good.
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Demanded Everything Facts
Our intelligence cannot wall itself up alive, like a pupa in a chrysalis. It must at any cost keep on speaking terms with the universe that engendered it.
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Alive Cost Wall
Genius is the capacity for seeing relationships where lesser men see none.
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Capacity Genius Men

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