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The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.

William James

There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man’s lack of faith in his true Self.
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Esteem Failure Inspirational Self
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
The greatest weapon we have to combat stress is the ability to choose our thoughts.
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Combat Stress Weapons
Genius… means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.
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Creativity Mean Science
To give up pretensions is as blessed a relief as to get them ratified.
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Blessed Deception Giving Up
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
Fear of life in one form or another is the great thing to exorcise.
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Fears Form Great Life Things
It is very important that teachers should realize the importance of habit.
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Important Realizing Teacher
Real culture lives by sympathies and admirations, not by dislikes and disdains; under all misleading wrappings it pounces unerringly upon the human core.
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Culture Life Real
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
To some of us the thought of God is like a sort of quiet music playing in the background of the mind.
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Mind Philosophy Quiet
Lives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or being.
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Based Inspirational Life Test
At bottom, the whole concern of religion is with the manner of our acceptance of the universe.
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Acceptance Wisdom Wise
The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.
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Inspirational Motivational Relationship
Our view of the world is truly shaped by what we decide to hear.
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Decide Shaped Views World
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

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