All religions begin with the cry Help.
WILLIAM JAMESHuman beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
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The deepest hunger in human beings is the desire to be appreciated.
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We with our lives are like islands in the sea, or like trees in the forest… But the trees also commingle their roots in the darkness underground.
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We can change our circumstances by a mere change of our attitude.
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The difference between objective and subjective extension is one of relation to a context solely.
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Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.
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Truth, as any dictionary will tell you, is a property of certain of our ideas. It means their agreement, as falsity means their disagreement, with reality.
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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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To consider hypotheses is surely always better than to dogmatize ins blaue hinein
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We must be careful not to confuse data with the abstractions we use to analyse them.
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Just for today I will exercise my soul in three ways: I will do somebody a good turn and not get found out. I will do at least two things I don’t want to do
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The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.
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The strenuous life tastes better
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Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system
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Touch is the alpha and omega of affection.
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You must bring out of each word its practical cash-value, set it at work within the stream of your experience.
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