Beyond the very extremity of fatigue distress, amounts of ease and power that we never dreamed ourselves to own, sources of strength habitually not taxed at all, because habitually we never push through the obstruction

William James
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  1. The greatest discovery of any generation is that a human can alter his life by altering his attitude.

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  3. A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.

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