I don’t sing because I’m happy; I’m happy because I sing.
WILLIAM JAMESWisdom is learning what to overlook.
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Since you make evil or good by your own thoughts, it is your ruling of your thoughts which proves to be your principal concern.
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Wisdom is learning what to overlook.
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Modern man . . . has not ceased to be credulous . . . the need to believe haunts him.
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Anything you may hold firmly in your imagination can be yours.
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Tension is a habit. Relaxing is a habit. Bad habits can be broken, good habits formed.
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As long as there are postmen, life will have zest.
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Truth, as any dictionary will tell you, is a property of certain of our ideas. It means their agreement, as falsity means their disagreement, with reality.
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There’s nothing so absurd that if you repeat it often enough, people will believe it.
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If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.
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Language is the most imperfect and expensive means yet discovered for communicating thought.
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If you want to change your life, do it flamboyantly and start immediately.
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New habits can be launched.
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Owing to the fact that all experience is a process, no point of view can ever be the last one
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There can be no difference anywhere that does not make a difference somewhere.
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When thoughts do not neutralize an undesirable emotion, action will.
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