We are stereotyped creatures, imitators and copiers of our past selves.
WILLIAM JAMESThe greatest weapon we have to combat stress is the ability to choose our thoughts.
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To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.
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A man has as many social selves as there are individuals who recognize him.
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To consider hypotheses is surely always better than to dogmatize ins blaue hinein
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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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If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.
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Individuality is founded in feeling
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He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed.
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The strenuous life tastes better
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The total possible consciousness may be split into parts which co-exist but mutually ignore each other.
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We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.
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Deepest principle of human nature is to be appreciated.
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The impulse to take life strivingly is indestructible in the race.
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The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
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The question of free will is insoluble on strictly psychological grounds.
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You can alter your life by altering the state of your mind.
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