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Truth is something that happens to an idea.

William James

The greatest weapon we have to combat stress is the ability to choose our thoughts.
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Combat Stress Weapons
Every individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony.
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Agony Individual Lonely
For the moment, what we attend to is reality.
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Attend Moments Reality
Impulse without reason is enough, and reason without impulse is a poor makeshift.
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Enough Poor Reason
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 prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.
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Civilization Class Fear
Where quality is the thing sought after, the thing of supreme quality is cheap, whatever the price one has to pay for it.
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Pay Quality Supreme
Real culture lives by sympathies and admirations, not by dislikes and disdains; under all misleading wrappings it pounces unerringly upon the human core.
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Culture Life Real
The general law is that no mental modification ever occurs which is not accompanied or followed by a bodily change.
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Law Medicine 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
We are stereotyped creatures, imitators and copiers of our past selves.
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Habit Past Self
The most immutable barrier in nature is between one man’s thoughts and another’s.
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Barriers Immutable Men
So to feel brave, act as if we were brave, use all our will to that end…and a courage-fit will very likely replace the fit of fear.
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Anticipation Brave Use
To know an object is to lead to it through a context which the world provides
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Objects Truth World
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
Man can change his life simply by changing his attitude.
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Attitude Changing Men

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