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To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.

William James

The general law is that no mental modification ever occurs which is not accompanied or followed by a bodily change.
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Law Medicine Philosophy
To change ones life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly.
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Change Life Philosophical
The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.
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Inspirational Motivational Relationship
The strenuous life tastes better
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Better Strenuous Taste
Truth, as any dictionary will tell you, is a property of certain of our ideas. It means their agreement, as falsity means their disagreement, with reality.
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Mean Reality Truth
The greatest weapon we have to combat stress is the ability to choose our thoughts.
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Combat Stress Weapons
He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed.
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Encouragement Encouraging Inspirational
The discovery of the power of our thoughts will prove to be the most important discovery of our time
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Discovery Important Positive
Everything which is demanded is by that fact a good.
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Demanded Everything Facts
The mind, in short, works on the data it receives very much as the sculptor works on his block of stone.
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Block Data Mind
A new opinion counts as true just in proportion as it gratifies the individual’s desire to assimilate the novel in his experience to his beliefs in stock
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Belief Desire Truth
Owing to the fact that all experience is a process, no point of view can ever be the last one
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Owing Truth Views
To give up pretensions is as blessed a relief as to get them ratified.
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Blessed Deception Giving Up
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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Opposites Statement Truth
Language is the most imperfect and expensive means yet discovered for communicating thought.
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Imperfect Language Mean
We can change our circumstances by a mere change of our attitude.
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Attitude Circumstances Mere
When you have broken the reality into concepts you never can reconstruct it in its wholeness.
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Broken Concepts Reality
The deepest human need is the need to be appreciated.
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Appreciated Humans Needs
Truth for us is simply a collective name for verification processes
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Names Process Truth
If you give appreciation to people, you win their goodwill. But more important than that, practicing this philosophy has made a different person of me.
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Appreciation Attitude Philosophy
The lunatic’s visions of horror are all drawn from the material of daily fact.
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Facts Insanity Vision
So it is with children who learn to read fluently and well: They begin to take flight into whole new worlds as effortlessly as young birds take to the sky.
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Children Effortless Reading Sky
You may not get everything you dream about, but you will never get anything you don’t dream about.
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Anything Dream Everything May
Religion . . . shall mean for us the feelings, acts and experiences of individual men in their solitude.
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Mean Men Solitude
The ultimate test of what a truth means is the conduct it dictates or inspires.
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Inspire Mean Truth
To improve the golden moment of opportunity, and catch the good that is within our reach, is the great art of life.
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Art Life Positive
The instant field of the present is at all times what I call the ‘pure’ experience. It is only virtually or potentially either object or subject as yet.
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All Fields Instant Time

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