Man can change his life simply by changing his attitude.
WILLIAM JAMESThe discovery of the power of our thoughts will prove to be the most important discovery of our time
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Organization and method mean much, but contagious human characters mean more in a university.
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One of the greatest discoveries of our time is that a man can alter the state of their life by altering the state of their mind.
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It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.
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Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.
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We can change our circumstances by a mere change of our attitude.
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In the matter of belief, we are all extreme conservatives.
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The ultimate test of what a truth means is the conduct it dictates or inspires.
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The intellectual life of man consists almost wholly in his substitution of conceptual order for the perceptual order in which his experience originally comes.
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Success plus Self-esteem equals Pretensions.
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We may be in the Universe as dogs and cats are in our libraries, seeing the books and hearing the conversation, but having no inkling of the meaning of it all.
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Give your dreams all you’ve got, and you’ll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you.
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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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Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
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When you have broken the reality into concepts you never can reconstruct it in its wholeness.
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We with our lives are like islands in the sea, or like trees in the forest… But the trees also commingle their roots in the darkness underground.
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