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

William James

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
In the matter of belief, we are all extreme conservatives.
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Belief Extremes Matter
A man of sense is never discouraged by difficulties; he redoubles his industry and his diligence, he perseveres and infallibly prevails at last.
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Meaningful Motivational Perseverance
We can change our circumstances by a mere change of our attitude.
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Attitude Circumstances Mere
A paradise of inward tranquility seems to be faith’s usual result.
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Inward Paradise Usual
No bell in us tolls to let us know for certain when truth is in our grasp.
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Bells Tolls 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
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
Man lives in only one small room of the enormous house of his consciousness.
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Men Small Rooms Thinking
Truth for us is simply a collective name for verification processes
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Names Process Truth
Impulse without reason is enough, and reason without impulse is a poor makeshift.
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Enough Poor Reason
Truth is something that happens to an idea.
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Happen Ideas Truth
An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.
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Ethics Philosophical Quality
There can be no difference anywhere that does not make a difference somewhere.
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Differences Making Somewhere
[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
The minute a man ceases to grow, no matter what his years, that minute he begins to be old.
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Growth Men Years

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