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Our faith is faith in someone else’s faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.

William James

For the moment, what we attend to is reality.
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Attend Moments Reality
The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.
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Community Friendship Sympathy
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
Effort is the one strictly undervalued and original contribution we make to this world.
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Contribution Effort World
You can alter your life by altering the state of your mind.
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Altering Life Mind States
We hear the words we have spoken, feel our own blow as we give it, or read in the bystander’s eyes the success or failure of our conduct.
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Bystanders Eye Teaching
… the intellect, everywhere invasive, shows everywhere its shallowing effect.
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Effects Intellect Shows
A sense of humor is just common sense dancing.
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Common Dance Humor Sense
The ‘I think’ which Kant said must be able to accompany all my objects, is the ‘I breathe’ which actually does accompany them.
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Able Accompanying Thinking
Procrastination is attitude’s natural assassin. There’s nothing so fatiguing as an uncompleted task
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Attitude Procrastination Tasks
The question of free will is insoluble on strictly psychological grounds.
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Free Will Psychological
The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.
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Fear Happiness Stress
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
Everything which is demanded is by that fact a good.
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Demanded Everything Facts
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
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

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