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You can alter your life by altering the state of your mind.

William James

A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.
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Life Stay Strong Ties
Anything you may hold firmly in your imagination can be yours.
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Anything Firmly Imagination May
A man with no philosophy in him is the most inauspicious and unprofitable of all possible social mates.
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Men Philosophy Social
For the moment, what we attend to is reality.
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Attend Moments Reality
When once a decision is reached and execution is the order of the day, dismiss absolutely all responsibility and care about the outcome.
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Decision Order Responsibility
Our beliefs and our attention are the same fact.
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Attention Belief Facts
We are proud of a human nature that could be so passionately extreme, but we shrink from advising others to follow the example.
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Example Human Nature Proud
When you have broken the reality into concepts you never can reconstruct it in its wholeness.
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Broken Concepts Reality
Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day.
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Effort Exercise Life Love
No bell in us tolls to let us know for certain when truth is in our grasp.
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Bells Tolls Truth
It seems the natural thing for us to listen whilst the Europeans talk.
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Natural Political Politics
How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.
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Happiness Laughter Men
We hear the words we have spoken, feel our own blow as we give it, or read in the bystander’s eyes the success or failure of our conduct.
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Bystanders Eye Teaching
To consider hypotheses is surely always better than to dogmatize ins blaue hinein
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Dogmatize Hypothesis Truth
Man alone of all the creatures of earth can change his own pattern. Man alone is the architect of his own destiny.
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Destiny Men Tree
The most peculiar social self which one is apt to have is in the mind of the person one is in love with.
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Mind Peculiar Self

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