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Most unhappiness is caused because people listen to themselves… instead of talking to themselves.

William James

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
So to feel brave, act as if we were brave, use all our will to that end…and a courage-fit will very likely replace the fit of fear.
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Anticipation Brave Use
Philosophy lives in words, but truth and fact well up into our lives in ways that exceed verbal formulation.
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Facts Philosophy Way
New habits can be launched.
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Habit New Launched
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
The deepest hunger in human beings is the desire to be appreciated.
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Appreciate Desire Friendship
Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.
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Humorous Life Philosophical
Time itself comes in drops.
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Come Drop Philosophical Itself
Pure experience’ is the name I gave to the immediate flux of life which furnishes the material to our later reflection with its conceptual categories.
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Flux Names Reflection
Truth happens to an idea
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Happens Ideas Truth
Where quality is the thing sought after, the thing of supreme quality is cheap, whatever the price one has to pay for it.
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Pay Quality Supreme
Earnestness means willingness to live with energy, though energy bring pain.
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Energy Mean Pain
A man of sense is never discouraged by difficulties; he redoubles his industry and his diligence, he perseveres and infallibly prevails at last.
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Meaningful Motivational Perseverance
Let everything you do be done as if it makes a difference.
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Differences Everything Insightful Making
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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Opposites Statement Truth
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

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