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Circumstance does not make me, it reveals me.

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
Habit is a second nature, or rather, it is ‘ten times nature’.
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Educational Inspirational Philosophy
A paradise of inward tranquility seems to be faith’s usual result.
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Inward Paradise Usual
We are thinking beings, and we cannot exclude the intellect from participating in any of our functions.
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Function Intellect Thinking
Pretend what we may, the whole man within us is at work when we form our philosophical opinions.
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Men Philosophical Philosophy
The ‘I think’ which Kant said must be able to accompany all my objects, is the ‘I breathe’ which actually does accompany them.
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Able Accompanying Thinking
The sovereign cure for worry is prayer.
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Philosophical Prayer Worry
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
There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.
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Inspirational Philosophical Sadness
If you give appreciation to people, you win their goodwill. But more important than that, practicing this philosophy has made a different person of me.
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Appreciation Attitude Philosophy
Truth happens to an idea
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Happens Ideas Truth
The total possible consciousness may be split into parts which co-exist but mutually ignore each other.
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Consciousness May Splits
Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system
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Credit Facts Truth
In the matter of belief, we are all extreme conservatives.
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Belief Extremes Matter
For the moment, what we attend to is reality.
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Attend Moments Reality
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

Circumstance does not make me, it reveals me.

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