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Since you make evil or good by your own thoughts, it is your ruling of your thoughts which proves to be your principal concern.

William James

Give your dreams all you’ve got, and you’ll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you.
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Basketball Dream Perseverance
With no attempt there can be no failure; with no failure no humiliation.
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Attempt Failure Humiliation No
Habit is a second nature, or rather, it is ‘ten times nature’.
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Educational Inspirational Philosophy
Tension is a habit. Relaxing is a habit. Bad habits can be broken, good habits formed.
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Broken Funny Habit
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
We may be in the Universe as dogs and cats are in our libraries, seeing the books and hearing the conversation, but having no inkling of the meaning of it all.
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Book Cat Conservations Dog
The strenuous life tastes better
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Better Strenuous Taste
Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day.
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Effort Exercise Life Love
Mankind’s common instinct for reality has always held the world to be essentially a theatre for heroism.
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Heroism Reality Theatre
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
Science, like life, feeds on its own decay. New facts burst old rules; then newly divined conceptions bind old and new together into a reconciling law.
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Law Science Together
Truth happens to an idea
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Happens Ideas Truth
You can alter your life by altering the state of your mind.
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Altering Life Mind States
The discovery of the power of our thoughts will prove to be the most important discovery of our time
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Discovery Important Positive
A man of sense is never discouraged by difficulties; he redoubles his industry and his diligence, he perseveres and infallibly prevails at last.
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Meaningful Motivational Perseverance
Anything you may hold firmly in your imagination can be yours.
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Anything Firmly Imagination May

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