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The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly.

William James

The strenuous life tastes better
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Better Strenuous Taste
Wisdom is learning what to overlook.
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Learning Philosophical Wisdom
A paradise of inward tranquility seems to be faith’s usual result.
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Inward Paradise Usual
There is but one unconditional commandment … to bring about the very largest total universe of good which we can see.
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Helping Others Unconditional Volunteering
We are proud of a human nature that could be so passionately extreme, but we shrink from advising others to follow the example.
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Example Human Nature Proud
The greatest weapon we have to combat stress is the ability to choose our thoughts.
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Combat Stress Weapons
Most unhappiness is caused because people listen to themselves… instead of talking to themselves.
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People Talking Unhappiness
The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.
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Civilization Class Fear
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 mind, in short, works on the data it receives very much as the sculptor works on his block of stone.
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Block Data Mind
We forget that every good that is worth possessing must be paid for in strokes of daily effort.
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Best Effort Forget Hard Work
The ultimate test of what a truth means is the conduct it dictates or inspires.
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Inspire Mean Truth
Let everything you do be done as if it makes a difference.
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Differences Everything Insightful Making
It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.
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Believe Government Philosophical
Our beliefs and our attention are the same fact.
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Attention Belief Facts
The intellectual life of man consists almost wholly in his substitution of conceptual order for the perceptual order in which his experience originally comes.
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Intellectual Men Order

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