There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man’s lack of faith in his true Self.
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The total possible consciousness may be split into parts which co-exist but mutually ignore each other.
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Effort is the one strictly undervalued and original contribution we make to this world.
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Deepest principle of human nature is to be appreciated.
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On pragmatistic principles, if the hypothesis of God works satisfactorily in the widest sense of the word, it is true.
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The greatest weapon we have to combat stress is the ability to choose our thoughts.
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Tension is a habit. Relaxing is a habit. Bad habits can be broken, good habits formed.
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The great thing, then, in all education, is to make our nervous system our ally instead of our enemy.
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I don’t sing because I’m happy; I’m happy because I sing.
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Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.
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Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day.
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There’s nothing so absurd that if you repeat it often enough, people will believe it.
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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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Man can change his life simply by changing his attitude.
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We must be careful not to confuse data with the abstractions we use to analyse them.
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It seems the natural thing for us to listen whilst the Europeans talk.
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