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Our beliefs and our attention are the same fact.

William James

Most unhappiness is caused because people listen to themselves… instead of talking to themselves.
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People Talking Unhappiness
Once you accept an idea, it’s an idea whose time has come.
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Accepting Daring Ideas
Experience, as we know, has a way of boiling over, and making us correct our present formulas.
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Boiling Experience Over Way
You can alter your life by altering the state of your mind.
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Altering Life Mind States
The first lecture in psychology that I ever heard was the first I ever gave.
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Firsts Lecture Psychology
We hear the words we have spoken, feel our own blow as we give it, or read in the bystander’s eyes the success or failure of our conduct.
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Bystanders Eye Teaching
Tension is a habit. Relaxing is a habit. Bad habits can be broken, good habits formed.
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Broken Funny Habit
To change ones life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly.
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Change Life Philosophical
Every individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony.
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Agony Individual Lonely
Religious awe is the same organic thrill which we feel in a forest at twilight, or in a mountain gorge.
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Mountain Religious Twilight
A new opinion counts as true just in proportion as it gratifies the individual’s desire to assimilate the novel in his experience to his beliefs in stock
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Belief Desire Truth
No one sees further into a generalization than his own knowledge of detail extends.
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Details Generalization Knowledge
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 you want to change your life, do it flamboyantly and start immediately.
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Changing Immediately Life Want
Pretend what we may, the whole man within us is at work when we form our philosophical opinions.
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Men Philosophical Philosophy
Science, like life, feeds on its own decay. New facts burst old rules; then newly divined conceptions bind old and new together into a reconciling law.
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Law Science Together

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