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

William James

We hear the words we have spoken, feel our own blow as we give it, or read in the bystander’s eyes the success or failure of our conduct.
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Bystanders Eye Teaching
The most peculiar social self which one is apt to have is in the mind of the person one is in love with.
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Mind Peculiar Self
A man with no philosophy in him is the most inauspicious and unprofitable of all possible social mates.
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Men Philosophy Social
[Religion is] the attempt to be in harmony with an unseen order of things.
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Grace Order Unseen
We are proud of a human nature that could be so passionately extreme, but we shrink from advising others to follow the example.
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Example Human Nature Proud
The sovereign cure for worry is prayer.
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Philosophical Prayer Worry
New habits can be launched.
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Habit New Launched
Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day.
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Effort Exercise Life Love
All religions begin with the cry Help.
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Cry Helping Religion
Philosophy lives in words, but truth and fact well up into our lives in ways that exceed verbal formulation.
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Facts Philosophy Way
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
We can change our circumstances by a mere change of our attitude.
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Attitude Circumstances Mere
Our intelligence cannot wall itself up alive, like a pupa in a chrysalis. It must at any cost keep on speaking terms with the universe that engendered it.
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Alive Cost Wall
Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.
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Believe Faith Philosophical
If merely ‘feeling good’ could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.
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Alcohol Feel Feelings Good
The emotions aren’t always immediately subject to reason, but they are always immediately subject to action.
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Action Emotional Feelings

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