Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
WILLIAM JAMESA man of sense is never discouraged by difficulties; he redoubles his industry and his diligence, he perseveres and infallibly prevails at last.
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A new idea is first condemned as ridiculous and then dismissed as trivial, until finally, it becomes what everybody knows.
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Our beliefs and our attention are the same fact.
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Tension is a habit. Relaxing is a habit. Bad habits can be broken, good habits formed.
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Objective evidence and certitude are doubtless very fine ideals to play with, but where on this moonlit and dream-visited planet are they found?
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Our beliefs are really rules for action.
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Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.
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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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You must bring out of each word its practical cash-value, set it at work within the stream of your experience.
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When you have broken the reality into concepts you never can reconstruct it in its wholeness.
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We are stereotyped creatures, imitators and copiers of our past selves.
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Man can change his life simply by changing his attitude.
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The deepest longing in the human breast is the desire for appreciation.
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Deepest principle of human nature is to be appreciated.
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Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive.
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