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Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.

William James

If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.
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Esteem Leadership Quality Self
A new opinion counts as true just in proportion as it gratifies the individual’s desire to assimilate the novel in his experience to his beliefs in stock
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Belief Desire Truth
Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
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Inspirational Positive Success
Success plus Self-esteem equals Pretensions.
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Congratulations Self Esteem Success
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
The power to move the world is in the subconcious mind
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Mind Moving Subconscious World
Most unhappiness is caused because people listen to themselves… instead of talking to themselves.
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People Talking Unhappiness
Individuality is founded in feeling
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Feelings Individuality Inspirational
Faith is synonymous with working hypothesis.
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Faith Hypothesis
The greatest weapon we have to combat stress is the ability to choose our thoughts.
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Combat Stress Weapons
I don’t sing because I’m happy; I’m happy because I sing.
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Happiness Music Philosophical
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
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
True to her inveterate habit, rationalism reverts to ‘principles,’ and thinks that when an abstraction once is named, we own an oracular solution.
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Habit Principles Thinking
[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
History is a bath of blood.
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Bath Blood History

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