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Man can alter his life by altering his thinking.

William James

There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood bu those who hear it.
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Lying Misunderstood Statistics
So to feel brave, act as if we were brave, use all our will to that end…and a courage-fit will very likely replace the fit of fear.
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Anticipation Brave Use
For morality life is a war, and the service of the highest is a sort of cosmic patriotism which also calls for volunteers.
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Political Volunteer War
The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.
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Fear Happiness Stress
The impulse to take life strivingly is indestructible in the race.
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Free Race Vagueness Will
Man alone of all the creatures of earth can change his own pattern. Man alone is the architect of his own destiny.
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Destiny Men Tree
To give up pretensions is as blessed a relief as to get them ratified.
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Blessed Deception Giving Up
If merely ‘feeling good’ could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.
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Alcohol Feel Feelings Good
History is a bath of blood.
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Bath Blood History
The sovereign cure for worry is prayer.
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Philosophical Prayer Worry
The drunken consciousness is one bit of the mystic consciousness, and our total opinion of it must find its place in our opinion of that larger whole.
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Consciousness Mystic Opinion
With mere good intentions hell is proverbially paved.
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Good Hell Intention Intentions
Experience, as we know, has a way of boiling over, and making us correct our present formulas.
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Boiling Experience Over Way
Habit is thus the enormous fly-wheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. It alone is what keeps us all within the bounds of ordinance.
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Agents Ordinance Uprising Wheels
No one sees further into a generalization than his own knowledge of detail extends.
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Details Generalization Knowledge
Our beliefs and our attention are the same fact.
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Attention Belief Facts

Man can alter his life by altering his thinking.

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