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Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.

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 lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system
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Credit Facts Truth
Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.
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Hate Inspirational Life
Genius… means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.
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Creativity Mean Science
You can alter your life by altering the state of your mind.
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Altering Life Mind States
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
All natural goods perish. Riches take wings; fame is a breath; love is a cheat; youth and health and pleasure vanish.
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Health Love Wings
Truth happens to an idea
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Happens Ideas Truth
To neglect the wise sayings of great thinkers is to deny ourselves the truest education.
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Deny Neglect Wise
It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.
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Inspirational Motivational Positive
He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed.
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Encouragement Encouraging Inspirational
We with our lives are like islands in the sea, or like trees in the forest… But the trees also commingle their roots in the darkness underground.
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Islands Roots Sea Underground
The emotions aren’t always immediately subject to reason, but they are always immediately subject to action.
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Action Emotional Feelings
Everything which is demanded is by that fact a good.
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Demanded Everything Facts
The greatest weapon we have to combat stress is the ability to choose our thoughts.
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Combat Stress Weapons
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

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