Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
WILLIAM JAMESThe discovery of the power of our thoughts will prove to be the most important discovery of our time
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Time itself comes in drops.
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A new idea is first condemned as ridiculous and then dismissed as trivial, until finally, it becomes what everybody knows.
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Our intelligence cannot wall itself up alive, like a pupa in a chrysalis. It must at any cost keep on speaking terms with the universe that engendered it.
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The general law is that no mental modification ever occurs which is not accompanied or followed by a bodily change.
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The deepest longing in the human breast is the desire for appreciation.
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The difference between objective and subjective extension is one of relation to a context solely.
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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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Lives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or being.
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Facts’ are the bounds of human knowledge, set for it, not by it.
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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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I don’t sing because I’m happy; I’m happy because I sing.
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The true’to put it very briefly, is only the expedient in the way of our thinking, just as ‘the right’ is only the expedient in the way of our behaving.
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The power to move the world is in the subconcious mind
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Man, whatever else he may be, is primarily a practical being, whose mind is given him to aid in adapting him to this world’s life
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There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.
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