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

William James

A paradise of inward tranquility seems to be faith’s usual result.
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Inward Paradise Usual
Truth, as any dictionary will tell you, is a property of certain of our ideas. It means their agreement, as falsity means their disagreement, with reality.
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Mean Reality Truth
We forget that every good that is worth possessing must be paid for in strokes of daily effort.
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Best Effort Forget Hard Work
New habits can be launched.
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Habit New Launched
Let everything you do be done as if it makes a difference.
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Differences Everything Insightful Making
Circumstance does not make me, it reveals me.
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Character Circumstances Enough Repeated
The deepest hunger in human beings is the desire to be appreciated.
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Appreciate Desire Friendship
But facts are facts, and if we only get enough of them theyare sure to combine.
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Combine Enough Fact Facts
We may be in the Universe as dogs and cats are in our libraries, seeing the books and hearing the conversation, but having no inkling of the meaning of it all.
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Book Cat Conservations Dog
Pure experience’ is the name I gave to the immediate flux of life which furnishes the material to our later reflection with its conceptual categories.
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Flux Names Reflection
Habit is a second nature, or rather, it is ‘ten times nature’.
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Educational Inspirational Philosophy
True ideas are those that we can assimilate, validate, corroborate, and verify. False ideas are those that we cannot
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Ideas Truth Verify
The greatest weapon we have to combat stress is the ability to choose our thoughts.
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Combat Stress Weapons
Every individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony.
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Agony Individual Lonely
The ‘I think’ which Kant said must be able to accompany all my objects, is the ‘I breathe’ which actually does accompany them.
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Able Accompanying Thinking
The great thing, then, in all education, is to make our nervous system our ally instead of our enemy.
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Allies Education Enemy

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