The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
WILLIAM JAMESIf you want to change your life, do it flamboyantly and start immediately.
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Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
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Man can alter his life by altering his thinking.
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Truth is something that happens to an idea.
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The minute a man ceases to grow, no matter what his years, that minute he begins to be old.
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New habits can be launched.
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The discovery of the power of our thoughts will prove to be the most important discovery of our time
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Focus on increasing service. Becoming great where you are. Pile in the wood. The heat will follow.
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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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It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.
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There’s nothing so absurd that if you repeat it often enough, people will believe it.
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The emotions aren’t always immediately subject to reason, but they are always immediately subject to action.
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Success plus Self-esteem equals Pretensions.
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True ideas are those that we can assimilate, validate, corroborate, and verify. False ideas are those that we cannot
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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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A paradise of inward tranquility seems to be faith’s usual result.
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Let everything you do be done as if it makes a difference.
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There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood bu those who hear it.
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As long as there are postmen, life will have zest.
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Habit is a second nature, or rather, it is ‘ten times nature’.
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There can be no final truth in ethics any more than in physics, until the last man has had his experience and said his say.
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Philosophy lives in words, but truth and fact well up into our lives in ways that exceed verbal formulation.
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The impulse to take life strivingly is indestructible in the race.
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We must be careful not to confuse data with the abstractions we use to analyse them.
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Earnestness means willingness to live with energy, though energy bring pain.
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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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A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.
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