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The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.

William James

Fear of life in one form or another is the great thing to exorcise.
WILLIAM JAMES

Fears Form Great Life Things
To neglect the wise sayings of great thinkers is to deny ourselves the truest education.
WILLIAM JAMES

Deny Neglect Wise
Real culture lives by sympathies and admirations, not by dislikes and disdains; under all misleading wrappings it pounces unerringly upon the human core.
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Culture Life Real
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
With no attempt there can be no failure; with no failure no humiliation.
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Attempt Failure Humiliation No
Our view of the world is truly shaped by what we decide to hear.
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Decide Shaped Views World
There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.
WILLIAM JAMES

Inspirational Philosophical Sadness
Religious awe is the same organic thrill which we feel in a forest at twilight, or in a mountain gorge.
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Mountain Religious Twilight
The general law is that no mental modification ever occurs which is not accompanied or followed by a bodily change.
WILLIAM JAMES

Law Medicine Philosophy
We are stereotyped creatures, imitators and copiers of our past selves.
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Habit Past Self
I don’t sing because I’m happy; I’m happy because I sing.
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Happiness Music Philosophical
The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.
WILLIAM JAMES

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
Democracy is still upon its trial. The civic genius of our people is its only bulwark.
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Democracy Genius People
It is very important that teachers should realize the importance of habit.
WILLIAM JAMES

Important Realizing Teacher

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