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You may not get everything you dream about, but you will never get anything you don’t dream about.

William James

The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly.
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Attitude Mean Ugly
When thoughts do not neutralize an undesirable emotion, action will.
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Action Emotion Inspiration
All religions begin with the cry Help.
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Cry Helping Religion
The first lecture in psychology that I ever heard was the first I ever gave.
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Firsts Lecture Psychology
Man can alter his life by altering his thinking.
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Attitude Philosophical Positive
I myself believe that the evidence for God lies primarily in inner personal experiences.
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Belief Believe Experience Lying
How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.
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Happiness Laughter Men
Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.
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Emergencies Encouragement Sith
A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.
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Life Stay Strong Ties
But facts are facts, and if we only get enough of them theyare sure to combine.
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Combine Enough Fact Facts
There can be no difference anywhere that does not make a difference somewhere.
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Differences Making Somewhere
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
Circumstance does not make me, it reveals me.
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Character Circumstances Enough Repeated
Truth is something that happens to an idea.
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Happen Ideas Truth
Man lives in only one small room of the enormous house of his consciousness.
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Men Small Rooms Thinking
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

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