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Man can change his life simply by changing his attitude.

William James

Since you make evil or good by your own thoughts, it is your ruling of your thoughts which proves to be your principal concern.
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Evil Prove Ruling
The emotions aren’t always immediately subject to reason, but they are always immediately subject to action.
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Action Emotional Feelings
The teachers of this country, one may say, have its future in their hands.
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Country Teacher Teaching
It seems the natural thing for us to listen whilst the Europeans talk.
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Natural Political Politics
No living person is sunk so low as not to be imitated by somebody.
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Failure Lows Person
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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Dream Play Science
It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.
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Change Life Positive
Both thought and feeling are determinants of conduct, and the same conduct may be determined either by feeling or by thought.
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Determine Feelings May
For the moment, what we attend to is reality.
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Attend Moments Reality
[Religion is] the attempt to be in harmony with an unseen order of things.
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Grace Order Unseen
Men’s activities are occupied into ways — in grappling with external circumstances and in striving to set things at one in their own topsy-turvy mind.
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Men Mind Way
Our view of the world is truly shaped by what we decide to hear.
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Decide Shaped Views World
The impulse to take life strivingly is indestructible in the race.
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Free Race Vagueness Will
Man can change his life simply by changing his attitude.
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Attitude Changing Men
… the intellect, everywhere invasive, shows everywhere its shallowing effect.
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Effects Intellect Shows
The deepest longing in the human breast is the desire for appreciation.
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Appreciation Creativity Desire

Man can change his life simply by changing his attitude.

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