"To change one's life: a. Start immediately b. B. Do it flamboyantly c. No exceptions Never suffer an exception to occur till the new habit is securely rooted."
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"Thoughts become perception, perception becomes reality. Alter your thoughts, alter your reality."
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"Beyond the very extreme of fatigue and distress, we may find amounts of ease and power we never dreamed ourselves to own; sources of strength never taxed at all because we never push through the obstruction"
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"To kill time is not murder, it's suicide."
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"Your hopes, dreams and aspirations are legitimate. They are trying to take you airborne, above the clouds, above the storms, if you only let them."
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"The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook."
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"Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing."
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"No matter how full a reservoir of maxims one may possess, and no matter how good one's sentiments may be, if one has not taken advantage of every concrete opportunity to act, one's character may remain entirely unaffected for the better."
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"The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes."
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"Pessimism leads to weakness. Optimism leads to power."
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"Circumstance does not make me, it reveals me."
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"Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second."
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"Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact."
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"There is nothing so absurd that it cannot be believed as truth if repeated often enough."
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"Consciousness... does not appear to itself chopped up in bits. Such words as 'chain' or 'train' do not describe it fitly as it presents itself in the first instance. It is nothing jointed; it flows. A 'river' or a 'stream' are the metaphors by which it is most naturally described. In talking of it hereafter, let us call it the stream of thought, of consciousness, or of subjective life. Source of the expression 'stream of consciousness'."
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"Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune."
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"A sense of humor is just common sense dancing."
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"Every individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony."
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"The good we do today becomes the happiness of tomorrow."
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"The function of ignoring, of inattention, is as vital a factor in mental progress as the function of attention itself."
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