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So it is with children who learn to read fluently and well: They begin to take flight into whole new worlds as effortlessly as young birds take to the sky.

William James

Tension is a habit. Relaxing is a habit. Bad habits can be broken, good habits formed.
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Broken Funny Habit
To neglect the wise sayings of great thinkers is to deny ourselves the truest education.
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Deny Neglect Wise
Every individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony.
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Agony Individual Lonely
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
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
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
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
Since you make evil or good by your own thoughts, it is your ruling of your thoughts which proves to be your principal concern.
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Evil Prove Ruling
So our self-feeling in this world depends entirely on what we back ourselves to be and do.
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Feelings Self World
What would be better for us to believe!’ This sounds very like a definition of truth
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Believe Sound Truth
Men habitually use only a small part of the power which they actually possess.
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Men Parts Small Use
Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.
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Emergencies Encouragement Sith
Anything you may hold firmly in your imagination can be yours.
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Anything Firmly Imagination May
The most immutable barrier in nature is between one man’s thoughts and another’s.
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Barriers Immutable Men
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

So it is with children who learn to read fluently and well: They begin to take flight into whole new worlds as effortlessly as young birds take to the sky.

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