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Man can alter his life by altering his thinking.

William James

We want all our friends to tell us our bad qualities; it is only the particular ass that does so whom we can’t tolerate.
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Best Cute Friendship Friend Quality
The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.
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Inspirational Motivational Relationship
The true’to put it very briefly, is only the expedient in the way of our thinking, just as ‘the right’ is only the expedient in the way of our behaving.
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Briefly Thinking True Way
Procrastination is attitude’s natural assassin. There’s nothing so fatiguing as an uncompleted task
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Attitude Procrastination Tasks
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
Democracy is still upon its trial. The civic genius of our people is its only bulwark.
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Democracy Genius People
No living person is sunk so low as not to be imitated by somebody.
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Failure Lows Person
Genius is the capacity for seeing relationships where lesser men see none.
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Capacity Genius Men
Once you accept an idea, it’s an idea whose time has come.
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Accepting Daring Ideas
We forget that every good that is worth possessing must be paid for in strokes of daily effort.
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Best Effort Forget Hard Work
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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Children Effortless Reading Sky
Religious awe is the same organic thrill which we feel in a forest at twilight, or in a mountain gorge.
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Mountain Religious Twilight
New habits can be launched.
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Habit New Launched
Modern man . . . has not ceased to be credulous . . . the need to believe haunts him.
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Believe Men Needs
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
We may be in the Universe as dogs and cats are in our libraries, seeing the books and hearing the conversation, but having no inkling of the meaning of it all.
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Book Cat Conservations Dog

Man can alter his life by altering his thinking.

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