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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.

William James

If merely ‘feeling good’ could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.
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Alcohol Feel Feelings Good
It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.
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Believe Government Philosophical
Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
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Inspirational Positive Success
The ultimate test of what a truth means is the conduct it dictates or inspires.
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Inspire Mean Truth
Deepest principle of human nature is to be appreciated.
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Appreciated Human Nature Principles
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
At bottom, the whole concern of religion is with the manner of our acceptance of the universe.
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Acceptance Wisdom Wise
How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.
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Happiness Laughter Men
Every individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony.
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Agony Individual Lonely
Philosophy lives in words, but truth and fact well up into our lives in ways that exceed verbal formulation.
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Facts Philosophy Way
Effort is the one strictly undervalued and original contribution we make to this world.
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Contribution Effort World
We can change our circumstances by a mere change of our attitude.
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Attitude Circumstances Mere
It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.
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Change Life Positive
For morality life is a war, and the service of the highest is a sort of cosmic patriotism which also calls for volunteers.
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Political Volunteer War
He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed.
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Encouragement Encouraging Inspirational
When once a decision is reached and execution is the order of the day, dismiss absolutely all responsibility and care about the outcome.
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Decision Order Responsibility

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