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There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man’s lack of faith in his true Self.

William James

The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.
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Fear Happiness Stress
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
The intellectual life of man consists almost wholly in his substitution of conceptual order for the perceptual order in which his experience originally comes.
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Intellectual Men Order
That which is most personal, is most interesting.
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Interesting Most Personal
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
The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly.
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Attitude Mean Ugly
Since you make evil or good by your own thoughts, it is your ruling of your thoughts which proves to be your principal concern.
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Evil Prove Ruling
Science, like life, feeds on its own decay. New facts burst old rules; then newly divined conceptions bind old and new together into a reconciling law.
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Law Science Together
The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
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Ideas Men Twenties
We are proud of a human nature that could be so passionately extreme, but we shrink from advising others to follow the example.
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Example Human Nature Proud
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
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
Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day.
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Effort Exercise Life Love
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
Most unhappiness is caused because people listen to themselves… instead of talking to themselves.
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People Talking Unhappiness
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

There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man’s lack of faith in his true Self.

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