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[Religion is] the attempt to be in harmony with an unseen order of things.

William James

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
The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
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Inspirational Life Motivational
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
A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.
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Life Stay Strong Ties
In business for yourself, not by yourself.
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Business Inspirational Philosophical
We want all our friends to tell us our bad qualities; it is only the particular ass that does so whom we can’t tolerate.
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Best Cute Friendship Friend Quality
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
If you give appreciation to people, you win their goodwill. But more important than that, practicing this philosophy has made a different person of me.
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Appreciation Attitude Philosophy
We can change our circumstances by a mere change of our attitude.
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Attitude Circumstances Mere
The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one.
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Die Education Philosophical
The deepest human need is the need to be appreciated.
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Appreciated Humans Needs
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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Children Effortless Reading Sky
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 art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
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Positive Wisdom Wise
Modern man . . . has not ceased to be credulous . . . the need to believe haunts him.
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Believe Men Needs
Anything you may hold firmly in your imagination can be yours.
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Anything Firmly Imagination May

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