[T]here is very little difference between one person and another, but what little difference ther eis, is very important.
WILLIAM JAMESHuman beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
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Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
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The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
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The education of attention would be an education par excellence
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The deepest human need is the need to be appreciated.
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The world is all the richer for having a devil in it, so long as we keep our foot upon his neck.
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Fear of life in one form or another is the great thing to exorcise.
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Mankind’s common instinct for reality has always held the world to be essentially a theatre for heroism.
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Our faith is faith in someone else’s faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.
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Earnestness means willingness to live with energy, though energy bring pain.
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You may not get everything you dream about, but you will never get anything you don’t dream about.
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A man has as many social selves as there are individuals who recognize him.
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The great thing, then, in all education, is to make our nervous system our ally instead of our enemy.
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The instant field of the present is at all times what I call the ‘pure’ experience. It is only virtually or potentially either object or subject as yet.
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In business for yourself, not by yourself.
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Truth happens to an idea
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