"Once a decision is reached, stop worrying and start working."
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"Man can change his life simply by changing his attitude."
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"Belief is desecrated when given to unproved and unquestioned statements for the solace and private pleasure of the believer . . . It is wrong always, everywhere, and for every one, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence."
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"We are doomed to cling to a life even while we find it unendurable."
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"Man alone of all the creatures of earth can change his own pattern. Man alone is the architect of his own destiny."
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"This life is worth living, we can say, since it is what we make it."
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"Fear of life in one form or another is the great thing to exorcise."
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"Take the happiest man, the one most envied by the world, and in nine cases out of ten his inmost consciousness is one of failure. Either his ideals in the line of his achievements are pitched far higher than the achievements themselves, or else he has secret ideals of which the world knows nothing, and in regard to which he inwardly knows himself to be found wanting."
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"The gist of the matter is this: Every impression that comes in from without, be it a sentence which we hear, an object of vision, or an effluvium which assails our nose, no sooner enters our consciousness than it is drafted off in some determinate direction or other, making connection with the other materials already there, and finally producing what we call our reaction. The particular connections it strikes into are determined by our past experiences and the 'associations' of the present sort of impression with them."
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"The emotions aren't always immediately subject to reason, but they are always immediately subject to action."
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"Mankind's common instinct for reality has always held the world to be essentially a theatre for heroism. In heroism, we feel, life's supreme mystery is hidden. We tolerate no one who has no capacity whatever for it in any direction. On the other hand, no matter what a man's frailties otherwise may be, if he be willing to risk death, and still more if he suffer it heroically, in the service he has chosen, the fact consecrates him forever."
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"Humanism . . . is not a single hypothesis or theorem, and it dwells on no new facts. It is rather a slow shifting in the philosophic perspective, making things appear as from a new centre of interest or point of sight."
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"A winner's attitude: it may be difficult, but it's possible. A loser's attitude: It may be possible, but it's too difficult."
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"It is your friends who make your world."
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"Give up the feeling of responsibility, let go your hold, resign the care of your destiny to higher powers, be genuinely indifferent as to what becomes of it all and you will find not only that you gain a perfect inward relief, but often also, in addition, the particular goods you sincerely thought you were renouncing."
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"In the practical use of our intellect, forgetting is as important as remembering."
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"Tension is a habit. Relaxing is a habit. Bad habits can be broken, good habits formed."
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"The education of attention would be an education par excellence"
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"There are no differences but differences of degree between different degrees of difference and no difference."
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"The discovery of the power of our thoughts will prove to be the most important discovery of our time"
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