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Focus on increasing service. Becoming great where you are. Pile in the wood. The heat will follow.

William James

The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.
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Fear Happiness Stress
You can alter your life by altering the state of your mind.
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Altering Life Mind States
The true’to put it very briefly, is only the expedient in the way of our thinking, just as ‘the right’ is only the expedient in the way of our behaving.
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Briefly Thinking True Way
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
Habit is thus the enormous fly-wheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. It alone is what keeps us all within the bounds of ordinance.
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Agents Ordinance Uprising Wheels
To consider hypotheses is surely always better than to dogmatize ins blaue hinein
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Dogmatize Hypothesis Truth
It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.
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Change Life Positive
I don’t sing because I’m happy; I’m happy because I sing.
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Happiness Music Philosophical
When you have broken the reality into concepts you never can reconstruct it in its wholeness.
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Broken Concepts Reality
The first lecture in psychology that I ever heard was the first I ever gave.
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Firsts Lecture Psychology
Pure experience’ is the name I gave to the immediate flux of life which furnishes the material to our later reflection with its conceptual categories.
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Flux Names Reflection
All natural happiness thus seems infected with a contradiction. The breath of the sepulchre surrounds it.
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Contradiction Happiness Natural
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
[T]here is very little difference between one person and another, but what little difference ther eis, is very important.
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Differences Important Personality
Tension is a habit. Relaxing is a habit. Bad habits can be broken, good habits formed.
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Broken Funny Habit
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

Focus on increasing service. Becoming great where you are. Pile in the wood. The heat will follow.

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