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There can be no existence of evil as a force to the healthy-minded individual.

William James

Man can alter his life by altering his thinking.
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Attitude Philosophical Positive
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
An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.
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Ethics Philosophical Quality
Man alone of all the creatures of earth can change his own pattern. Man alone is the architect of his own destiny.
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Destiny Men Tree
I am well aware how odd it must seem to some of you to hear me say that an idea is true so long as to believe it is profitable to our lives
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Believe Ideas Truth
We can change our circumstances by a mere change of our attitude.
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Attitude Circumstances Mere
In the matter of belief, we are all extreme conservatives.
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Belief Extremes Matter
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
At bottom, the whole concern of religion is with the manner of our acceptance of the universe.
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Acceptance Wisdom Wise
Wisdom is learning what to overlook.
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Learning Philosophical Wisdom
[Religion is] the attempt to be in harmony with an unseen order of things.
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Grace Order Unseen
To give up pretensions is as blessed a relief as to get them ratified.
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Blessed Deception Giving Up
The lunatic’s visions of horror are all drawn from the material of daily fact.
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Facts Insanity Vision
The deepest human need is the need to be appreciated.
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Appreciated Humans Needs
We are thinking beings, and we cannot exclude the intellect from participating in any of our functions.
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Function Intellect Thinking
True ideas are those that we can assimilate, validate, corroborate, and verify. False ideas are those that we cannot
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Ideas Truth Verify

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