The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly.
WILLIAM JAMESIs life worth living? It all depends on the liver.
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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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We can change our circumstances by a mere change of our attitude.
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The difference between objective and subjective extension is one of relation to a context solely.
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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 God of many men is little more than their court of appeal against the damnatory judgment passed on their failures by the opinion of the world.
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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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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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To change ones life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly.
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Deepest principle of human nature is to be appreciated.
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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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Where is it, this present? It has melted in our grasp, fled ere we could touch it, gone in the instant of becoming.
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All natural goods perish. Riches take wings; fame is a breath; love is a cheat; youth and health and pleasure vanish.
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You can alter your life by altering the state of your mind.
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There’s nothing so absurd that if you repeat it often enough, people will believe it.
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