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William James
"The greatest discovery of our generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind. As you think, so shall you be."
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"We don't laugh because we're happy -- we're happy because we laugh."
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"Whenever you're in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is attitude."
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Anger Attitude
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"Wisdom is learning what to overlook."
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Discipline Wisdom
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"The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook."
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Art Wisdom
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"To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal."
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Abnormal Psychiatry

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William James
"If you believe that feeling bad or worrying long enough will change a past or future event, then you are residing on another planet with a different reality system."
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Believe Worry
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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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Endurance
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"Many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices."
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"The highest flights of charity, devotion, trust, patience, bravery to which the wings of human nature have spread themselves have been flown for religious ideals."
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Bravery
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"The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another."
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Ability
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"If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it."
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Desire
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"Every man who possibly can should force himself to a holiday of a full month in a year, whether he feels like taking it or not."
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Force Vacation
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"Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task"
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"There are no differences but differences of degree between different degrees of difference and no difference."
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"If you want a quality, act as if you already had it."
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"The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one."
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"Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice."
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