The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly.
WILLIAM JAMES[T]here is very little difference between one person and another, but what little difference ther eis, is very important.
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To change ones life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly.
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If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.
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The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
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There’s nothing so absurd that if you repeat it often enough, people will believe it.
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A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.
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I don’t sing because I’m happy; I’m happy because I sing.
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Man can change his life simply by changing his attitude.
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Success plus Self-esteem equals Pretensions.
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Impulse without reason is enough, and reason without impulse is a poor makeshift.
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Pure experience’ is the name I gave to the immediate flux of life which furnishes the material to our later reflection with its conceptual categories.
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To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.
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What would be better for us to believe!’ This sounds very like a definition of truth
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The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.
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Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.
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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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