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To give up pretensions is as blessed a relief as to get them ratified.

William James

To improve the golden moment of opportunity, and catch the good that is within our reach, is the great art of life.
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Art Life Positive
The greatest weapon we have to combat stress is the ability to choose our thoughts.
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Combat Stress Weapons
Religion is a monumental chapter in the history of human egotism.
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Chapters Egotism Religion
The drunken consciousness is one bit of the mystic consciousness, and our total opinion of it must find its place in our opinion of that larger whole.
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Consciousness Mystic Opinion
Impulse without reason is enough, and reason without impulse is a poor makeshift.
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Enough Poor Reason
One of the greatest discoveries of our time is that a man can alter the state of their life by altering the state of their mind.
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Discovery Men Mind
Our intelligence cannot wall itself up alive, like a pupa in a chrysalis. It must at any cost keep on speaking terms with the universe that engendered it.
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Alive Cost Wall
In all primary school work the principle of multiple impressions is well recognized.
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Educational Philosophy School
For the moment, what we attend to is reality.
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Attend Moments Reality
The total possible consciousness may be split into parts which co-exist but mutually ignore each other.
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Consciousness May Splits
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
Touch is the alpha and omega of affection.
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Affection Alpha Omega
We are stereotyped creatures, imitators and copiers of our past selves.
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Habit Past Self
He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed.
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Encouragement Encouraging Inspirational
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
Everything which is demanded is by that fact a good.
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Demanded Everything Facts

To give up pretensions is as blessed a relief as to get them ratified.

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