Man can alter his life by altering his thinking.
WILLIAM JAMESTruth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system
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We forget that every good that is worth possessing must be paid for in strokes of daily effort.
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It is art that makes life, and I know of no substitute whatsoever for the force and beauty of its process.
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If you want to change your life, do it flamboyantly and start immediately.
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The discovery of the power of our thoughts will prove to be the most important discovery of our time
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It seems the natural thing for us to listen whilst the Europeans talk.
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Everything which is demanded is by that fact a good.
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We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.
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Give your dreams all you’ve got, and you’ll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you.
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Modern man . . . has not ceased to be credulous . . . the need to believe haunts him.
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Men’s activities are occupied into ways — in grappling with external circumstances and in striving to set things at one in their own topsy-turvy mind.
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True ideas are those that we can assimilate, validate, corroborate, and verify. False ideas are those that we cannot
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We are thinking beings, and we cannot exclude the intellect from participating in any of our functions.
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Faith is synonymous with working hypothesis.
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No bell in us tolls to let us know for certain when truth is in our grasp.
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A man has as many social selves as there are individuals who recognize him.
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