Fear of life in one form or another is the great thing to exorcise.
WILLIAM JAMESA new position of responsibility will usually show a man to be a far stronger creature than was supposed.
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Both thought and feeling are determinants of conduct, and the same conduct may be determined either by feeling or by thought.
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Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day.
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The greatest weapon we have to combat stress is the ability to choose our thoughts.
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Man, biologically considered … is simply the most formidable of all beasts of prey, and, indeed, the only one that preys systematically on its own kind.
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[Religion is] the attempt to be in harmony with an unseen order of things.
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Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
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Facts’ are the bounds of human knowledge, set for it, not by it.
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It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.
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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.
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Man can change his life simply by changing his attitude.
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Each of us is in fact what he is almost exclusively by virtue of his imitative-ness.
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Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being.
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Religious awe is the same organic thrill which we feel in a forest at twilight, or in a mountain gorge.
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The strenuous life tastes better
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I don’t sing because I’m happy; I’m happy because I sing.
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