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The greatest weapon we have to combat stress is the ability to choose our thoughts.

William James

A paradise of inward tranquility seems to be faith’s usual result.
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Inward Paradise Usual
Our beliefs and our attention are the same fact.
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Attention Belief Facts
It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.
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Inspirational Motivational Positive
Democracy is still upon its trial. The civic genius of our people is its only bulwark.
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Democracy Genius People
The sovereign cure for worry is prayer.
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Philosophical Prayer Worry
The deepest longing in the human breast is the desire for appreciation.
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Appreciation Creativity Desire
To neglect the wise sayings of great thinkers is to deny ourselves the truest education.
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Deny Neglect Wise
Organization and method mean much, but contagious human characters mean more in a university.
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Character Mean Organization
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
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
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
[Religion is] the attempt to be in harmony with an unseen order of things.
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Grace Order Unseen
When you have broken the reality into concepts you never can reconstruct it in its wholeness.
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Broken Concepts Reality
What would be better for us to believe!’ This sounds very like a definition of truth
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Believe Sound Truth
Religious awe is the same organic thrill which we feel in a forest at twilight, or in a mountain gorge.
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Mountain Religious Twilight
Man can alter his life by altering his thinking.
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Attitude Philosophical Positive

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