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Our beliefs are really rules for action.

William James

Where is it, this present? It has melted in our grasp, fled ere we could touch it, gone in the instant of becoming.
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Becoming Gone Instant
[T]here is very little difference between one person and another, but what little difference ther eis, is very important.
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Differences Important Personality
The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.
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Fear Happiness Stress
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
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
Fear of life in one form or another is the great thing to exorcise.
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Fears Form Great Life Things
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
Genius… means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.
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Creativity Mean Science
Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.
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Clever Motivational Procrastination
At bottom, the whole concern of religion is with the manner of our acceptance of the universe.
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Acceptance Wisdom Wise
Truth, as any dictionary will tell you, is a property of certain of our ideas. It means their agreement, as falsity means their disagreement, with reality.
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Mean Reality Truth
When thoughts do not neutralize an undesirable emotion, action will.
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Action Emotion Inspiration
Each of us is in fact what he is almost exclusively by virtue of his imitative-ness.
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Facts Models Role Virtue
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
Experience, as we know, has a way of boiling over, and making us correct our present formulas.
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Boiling Experience Over Way
Give your dreams all you’ve got, and you’ll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you.
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Basketball Dream Perseverance

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