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If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.

William James

I don’t sing because I’m happy; I’m happy because I sing.
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Happiness Music Philosophical
The true’to put it very briefly, is only the expedient in the way of our thinking, just as ‘the right’ is only the expedient in the way of our behaving.
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Briefly Thinking True Way
A new position of responsibility will usually show a man to be a far stronger creature than was supposed.
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Men Responsibility Stronger
An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.
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Ethics Philosophical Quality
Religion . . . shall mean for us the feelings, acts and experiences of individual men in their solitude.
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Mean Men Solitude
A man has as many social selves as there are individuals who recognize him.
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Individual Men Self
The minute a man ceases to grow, no matter what his years, that minute he begins to be old.
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Growth Men Years
Man can change his life simply by changing his attitude.
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Attitude Changing Men
The most peculiar social self which one is apt to have is in the mind of the person one is in love with.
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Mind Peculiar Self
Both thought and feeling are determinants of conduct, and the same conduct may be determined either by feeling or by thought.
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Determine Feelings May
Impulse without reason is enough, and reason without impulse is a poor makeshift.
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Enough Poor Reason
Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day.
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Effort Exercise Life Love
Anything you may hold firmly in your imagination can be yours.
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Anything Firmly Imagination May
Wisdom is learning what to overlook.
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Learning Philosophical Wisdom
When you have broken the reality into concepts you never can reconstruct it in its wholeness.
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Broken Concepts Reality
A sense of humor is just common sense dancing.
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Common Dance Humor Sense

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