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To some of us the thought of God is like a sort of quiet music playing in the background of the mind.

William James

Most unhappiness is caused because people listen to themselves… instead of talking to themselves.
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People Talking Unhappiness
At bottom, the whole concern of religion is with the manner of our acceptance of the universe.
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Acceptance Wisdom Wise
I don’t sing because I’m happy; I’m happy because I sing.
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Happiness Music Philosophical
Give your dreams all you’ve got, and you’ll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you.
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Basketball Dream Perseverance
Wisdom is learning what to overlook.
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Learning Philosophical Wisdom
One of the greatest discoveries of our time is that a man can alter the state of their life by altering the state of their mind.
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Discovery Men Mind
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
To know an object is to lead to it through a context which the world provides
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Objects Truth World
The world is all the richer for having a devil in it, so long as we keep our foot upon his neck.
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Devil Feet Long
It seems the natural thing for us to listen whilst the Europeans talk.
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Natural Political Politics
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
We are stereotyped creatures, imitators and copiers of our past selves.
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Habit Past Self
That which is most personal, is most interesting.
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Interesting Most Personal
We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.
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Opposites Statement Truth
Each of us is in fact what he is almost exclusively by virtue of his imitative-ness.
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Facts Models Role Virtue
Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system
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Credit Facts Truth
To change ones life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly.
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Change Life Philosophical
To consider hypotheses is surely always better than to dogmatize ins blaue hinein
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Dogmatize Hypothesis Truth
Truth for us is simply a collective name for verification processes
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Names Process Truth
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
For the moment, what we attend to is reality.
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Attend Moments Reality
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.
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Appreciation Attitude Philosophy
The true’to put it very briefly, is only the expedient in the way of our thinking, just as ‘the right’ is only the expedient in the way of our behaving.
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Briefly Thinking True Way
Where quality is the thing sought after, the thing of supreme quality is cheap, whatever the price one has to pay for it.
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Pay Quality Supreme
[T]here is very little difference between one person and another, but what little difference ther eis, is very important.
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Differences Important Personality
All natural happiness thus seems infected with a contradiction. The breath of the sepulchre surrounds it.
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Contradiction Happiness Natural
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

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