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There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.

William James

The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.
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Fear Happiness Stress
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
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Positive Wisdom Wise
Just for today I will exercise my soul in three ways: I will do somebody a good turn and not get found out. I will do at least two things I don’t want to do
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Exercise Inspiration Somebody Two
On pragmatistic principles, if the hypothesis of God works satisfactorily in the widest sense of the word, it is true.
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God Principles Theism
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
Man can alter his life by altering his thinking.
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Attitude Philosophical 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
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
Once you accept an idea, it’s an idea whose time has come.
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Accepting Daring Ideas
We can change our circumstances by a mere change of our attitude.
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Attitude Circumstances Mere
The deepest hunger in human beings is the desire to be appreciated.
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Appreciate Desire Friendship
Both thought and feeling are determinants of conduct, and the same conduct may be determined either by feeling or by thought.
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Determine Feelings May
Genius is the capacity for seeing relationships where lesser men see none.
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Capacity Genius Men
Tension is a habit. Relaxing is a habit. Bad habits can be broken, good habits formed.
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Broken Funny Habit
Footnotes — little dogs yapping at the heels of the text
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Dog Littles Writing
Deepest principle of human nature is to be appreciated.
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Appreciated Human Nature Principles

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