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

William James

I am well aware how odd it must seem to some of you to hear me say that an idea is true so long as to believe it is profitable to our lives
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Believe Ideas Truth
Truth is something that happens to an idea.
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Happen Ideas Truth
Habit is thus the enormous fly-wheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. It alone is what keeps us all within the bounds of ordinance.
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Agents Ordinance Uprising Wheels
For morality life is a war, and the service of the highest is a sort of cosmic patriotism which also calls for volunteers.
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Political Volunteer War
If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.
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Esteem Leadership Quality Self
A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.
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Life Stay Strong Ties
So our self-feeling in this world depends entirely on what we back ourselves to be and do.
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Feelings Self World
But facts are facts, and if we only get enough of them theyare sure to combine.
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Combine Enough Fact Facts
Men habitually use only a small part of the power which they actually possess.
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Men Parts Small Use
To some of us the thought of God is like a sort of quiet music playing in the background of the mind.
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Mind Philosophy Quiet
Every individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony.
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Agony Individual Lonely
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
The instant field of the present is at all times what I call the ‘pure’ experience. It is only virtually or potentially either object or subject as yet.
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All Fields Instant Time
A sense of humor is just common sense dancing.
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Common Dance Humor Sense
The discovery of the power of our thoughts will prove to be the most important discovery of our time
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Discovery Important Positive
Man can alter his life by altering his thinking.
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Attitude Philosophical Positive

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