Perception Quote by William James

“Thoughts become perception, perception becomes reality. Alter your thoughts, alter your reality.”

William James

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Effort is the one strictly undervalued and original contribution we make to this world.

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Circumstance does not make me, it reveals me.

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'Facts' are the bounds of human knowledge, set for it, not by it.

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We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.

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It is your friends who make your world.

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Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.

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“How soon, indeed, are human things forgotten! As we meet here this morning, the Southern sun is shining on their place of burial, and…

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