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Man can alter his life by altering his thinking.

William James

Circumstance does not make me, it reveals me.
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Character Circumstances Enough Repeated
Truth is something that happens to an idea.
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Happen Ideas Truth
The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
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Ideas Men Twenties
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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Art Force Process
Man can alter his life by altering his thinking.
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Attitude Philosophical Positive
Asceticism may be a mere expression of organic hardihood, disgusted with too much ease.
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Asceticism Ease Expression
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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Cash Experience Stream
New habits can be launched.
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Habit New Launched
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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Islands Roots Sea Underground
An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.
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Ethics Philosophical Quality
Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.
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Clever Motivational Procrastination
The lunatic’s visions of horror are all drawn from the material of daily fact.
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Facts Insanity Vision
To improve the golden moment of opportunity, and catch the good that is within our reach, is the great art of life.
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Art Life Positive
I myself believe that the evidence for God lies primarily in inner personal experiences.
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Belief Believe Experience Lying
It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.
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Believe Government Philosophical
A new position of responsibility will usually show a man to be a far stronger creature than was supposed.
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Men Responsibility Stronger

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