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If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.

William James

Every individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony.
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Agony Individual Lonely
Habit is a second nature, or rather, it is ‘ten times nature’.
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Educational Inspirational Philosophy
Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day.
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Effort Exercise Life Love
Focus on increasing service. Becoming great where you are. Pile in the wood. The heat will follow.
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Becoming Great Focus Woods
With no attempt there can be no failure; with no failure no humiliation.
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Attempt Failure Humiliation No
The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.
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Fear Happiness Stress
Our beliefs and our attention are the same fact.
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Attention Belief Facts
All natural happiness thus seems infected with a contradiction. The breath of the sepulchre surrounds it.
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Contradiction Happiness Natural
… the intellect, everywhere invasive, shows everywhere its shallowing effect.
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Effects Intellect Shows
What would be better for us to believe!’ This sounds very like a definition of truth
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Believe Sound Truth
It is art that makes life, and I know of no substitute whatsoever for the force and beauty of its process.
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Art Force Process
There’s nothing so absurd that if you repeat it often enough, people will believe it.
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Believe People Propaganda
Man lives in only one small room of the enormous house of his consciousness.
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Men Small Rooms Thinking
Footnotes — little dogs yapping at the heels of the text
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Dog Littles Writing
The deepest human need is the need to be appreciated.
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Appreciated Humans Needs
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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