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We want all our friends to tell us our bad qualities; it is only the particular ass that does so whom we can’t tolerate.

William James

We are stereotyped creatures, imitators and copiers of our past selves.
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Habit Past Self
Tension is a habit. Relaxing is a habit. Bad habits can be broken, good habits formed.
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Broken Funny Habit
To change ones life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly.
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Change Life Philosophical
The lunatic’s visions of horror are all drawn from the material of daily fact.
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Facts Insanity Vision
What would be better for us to believe!’ This sounds very like a definition of truth
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Believe Sound Truth
We can change our circumstances by a mere change of our attitude.
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Attitude Circumstances Mere
Circumstance does not make me, it reveals me.
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Character Circumstances Enough Repeated
Religious awe is the same organic thrill which we feel in a forest at twilight, or in a mountain gorge.
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Mountain Religious Twilight
Once you accept an idea, it’s an idea whose time has come.
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Accepting Daring Ideas
In the matter of belief, we are all extreme conservatives.
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Belief Extremes Matter
It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.
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Change Life Positive
Where is it, this present? It has melted in our grasp, fled ere we could touch it, gone in the instant of becoming.
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Becoming Gone Instant
The drunken consciousness is one bit of the mystic consciousness, and our total opinion of it must find its place in our opinion of that larger whole.
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Consciousness Mystic Opinion
There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man’s lack of faith in his true Self.
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Esteem Failure Inspirational Self
Touch is the alpha and omega of affection.
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Affection Alpha Omega
A paradise of inward tranquility seems to be faith’s usual result.
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Inward Paradise Usual

We want all our friends to tell us our bad qualities; it is only the particular ass that does so whom we can’t tolerate.

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