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Truth in our ideas means their power to work.
Circumstance does not make me, it reveals me.
For the moment, what we attend to is reality.
To spend life for something which outlasts it.
A sense of humor is just common sense dancing.
Pessimism leads to weakness, optimism to power.
The word 'cause' is an altar to an unknown god.
Man can alter his life by altering his thinking.
Our beliefs and our attention are the same fact.
Events are influenced by our very great desires.
That which is most personal, is most interesting.
As long as there are postmen, life will have zest.
Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.
A purely disembodied human emotion is a nonentity.
The essence of genius is to know what to overlook.
Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.
A thing is important if anyone think it important.
Compared to what we ought to be, we are half awake.
Faith branches off the highroad before reason begins
Everything which is demanded is by that fact a good.
If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.
With mere good intentions hell is proverbially paved.
The deepest human need is the need to be appreciated.
Pessimism leads to weakness. Optimism leads to power.
The power to move the world is in the subconcious mind
The good we do today becomes the happiness of tomorrow.
Deepest principle of human nature is to be appreciated.
The trail of the human serpent is thus over everything.
Man can change his life simply by changing his attitude.
Life shall be built in doing and suffering and creating.
Despair lames most people, but it wakes others fully up.
I don't sing because I'm happy; I'm happy because I sing.
Footnotes -- little dogs yapping at the heels of the text
The instinct of ownership is fundamental in man's nature.
Act in earnest and you will become earnest in all you do.
Once you accept an idea, it's an idea whose time has come.
Agisci come se quel che fai, facesse la differenza. La fa!
Let everything you do be done as if it makes a difference.
In the matter of belief, we are all extreme conservatives.
Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system
You can alter your life by altering the state of your mind.
To know one thing thoroughly would be to know the universe.
My first act of free will shall be to believe in free will.
To change ones life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly.
If you give appreciation to people, you win their goodwill.
Once a decision is reached, stop worrying and start working.
Psychology ought certainly to give the teacher radical help.
Anything you may hold firmly in your imagination can be yours.
Philosophy is "an unusually stubborn attempt to think clearly.
Habit is a second nature, or rather, it is 'ten times nature'.