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Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.

William James

Once you accept an idea, it’s an idea whose time has come.
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Accepting Daring Ideas
Most men have a good memory for facts connected with their own pursuits.
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Educational Memories Philosophy
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
Our intelligence cannot wall itself up alive, like a pupa in a chrysalis. It must at any cost keep on speaking terms with the universe that engendered it.
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Alive Cost Wall
Procrastination is attitude’s natural assassin. There’s nothing so fatiguing as an uncompleted task
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Attitude Procrastination Tasks
The deepest longing in the human breast is the desire for appreciation.
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Appreciation Creativity Desire
Men’s activities are occupied into ways — in grappling with external circumstances and in striving to set things at one in their own topsy-turvy mind.
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Men Mind Way
Religion . . . shall mean for us the feelings, acts and experiences of individual men in their solitude.
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Mean Men Solitude
If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.
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Leadership Motivation Philosophical
We are proud of a human nature that could be so passionately extreme, but we shrink from advising others to follow the example.
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Example Human Nature Proud
When you have broken the reality into concepts you never can reconstruct it in its wholeness.
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Broken Concepts Reality
Fear of life in one form or another is the great thing to exorcise.
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Fears Form Great Life Things
A man has as many social selves as there are individuals who recognize him.
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Individual Men Self
Tension is a habit. Relaxing is a habit. Bad habits can be broken, good habits formed.
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Broken Funny Habit
… the intellect, everywhere invasive, shows everywhere its shallowing effect.
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Effects Intellect Shows
In the matter of belief, we are all extreme conservatives.
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Belief Extremes Matter

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