Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
WILLIAM JAMESNo bell in us tolls to let us know for certain when truth is in our grasp.
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Deepest principle of human nature is to be appreciated.
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Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive.
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Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.
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Real culture lives by sympathies and admirations, not by dislikes and disdains; under all misleading wrappings it pounces unerringly upon the human core.
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Impulse without reason is enough, and reason without impulse is a poor makeshift.
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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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It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.
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If you want to change your life, do it flamboyantly and start immediately.
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Let everything you do be done as if it makes a difference.
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To consider hypotheses is surely always better than to dogmatize ins blaue hinein
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We are proud of a human nature that could be so passionately extreme, but we shrink from advising others to follow the example.
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A man has as many social selves as there are individuals who recognize him.
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So it is with children who learn to read fluently and well: They begin to take flight into whole new worlds as effortlessly as young birds take to the sky.
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All of our life is but a mass of small habits – practical, emotional, intellectual and spiritual – that bear us irresistibly toward our destiny.
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The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
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