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The great thing, then, in all education, is to make our nervous system our ally instead of our enemy.

William James

You can alter your life by altering the state of your mind.
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Altering Life Mind States
The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.
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Inspirational Motivational Relationship
The most immutable barrier in nature is between one man’s thoughts and another’s.
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Barriers Immutable Men
For the moment, what we attend to is reality.
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Attend Moments Reality
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
True ideas are those that we can assimilate, validate, corroborate, and verify. False ideas are those that we cannot
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Ideas Truth Verify
There’s nothing so absurd that if you repeat it often enough, people will believe it.
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Believe People Propaganda
What would be better for us to believe!’ This sounds very like a definition of truth
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Believe Sound Truth
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
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
New habits can be launched.
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Habit New Launched
Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.
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Clever Motivational Procrastination
Everything which is demanded is by that fact a good.
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Demanded Everything Facts
All of our life is but a mass of small habits – practical, emotional, intellectual and spiritual – that bear us irresistibly toward our destiny.
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Destiny Military Spiritual
If you give appreciation to people, you win their goodwill. But more important than that, practicing this philosophy has made a different person of me.
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Appreciation Attitude Philosophy
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

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