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The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.

William James

A new opinion counts as true just in proportion as it gratifies the individual’s desire to assimilate the novel in his experience to his beliefs in stock
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Belief Desire Truth
If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.
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Esteem Leadership Quality Self
Habit is thus the enormous fly-wheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. It alone is what keeps us all within the bounds of ordinance.
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Agents Ordinance Uprising Wheels
When you have broken the reality into concepts you never can reconstruct it in its wholeness.
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Broken Concepts Reality
The mind, in short, works on the data it receives very much as the sculptor works on his block of stone.
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Block Data Mind
A man with no philosophy in him is the most inauspicious and unprofitable of all possible social mates.
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Men Philosophy Social
The discovery of the power of our thoughts will prove to be the most important discovery of our time
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Discovery Important Positive
To consider hypotheses is surely always better than to dogmatize ins blaue hinein
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Dogmatize Hypothesis Truth
Habit is a second nature, or rather, it is ‘ten times nature’.
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Educational Inspirational Philosophy
Man alone of all the creatures of earth can change his own pattern. Man alone is the architect of his own destiny.
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Destiny Men Tree
Man can alter his life by altering his thinking.
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Attitude Philosophical Positive
How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.
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Happiness Laughter Men
Objective evidence and certitude are doubtless very fine ideals to play with, but where on this moonlit and dream-visited planet are they found?
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Dream Play Science
It is very important that teachers should realize the importance of habit.
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Important Realizing Teacher
You can alter your life by altering the state of your mind.
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Altering Life Mind States
Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day.
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Effort Exercise Life Love

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