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Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.

William James

The impulse to take life strivingly is indestructible in the race.
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Free Race Vagueness Will
It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.
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Inspirational Motivational Positive
Habit is a second nature, or rather, it is ‘ten times nature’.
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Educational Inspirational Philosophy
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
Religion . . . shall mean for us the feelings, acts and experiences of individual men in their solitude.
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Mean Men Solitude
Earnestness means willingness to live with energy, though energy bring pain.
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Energy Mean Pain
We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.
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Opposites Statement Truth
The deepest human need is the need to be appreciated.
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Appreciated Humans Needs
The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.
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Community Friendship Sympathy
A paradise of inward tranquility seems to be faith’s usual result.
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Inward Paradise Usual
The sovereign cure for worry is prayer.
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Philosophical Prayer Worry
We forget that every good that is worth possessing must be paid for in strokes of daily effort.
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Best Effort Forget Hard Work
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
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Positive Wisdom Wise
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
Once you accept an idea, it’s an idea whose time has come.
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Accepting Daring Ideas
The strenuous life tastes better
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Better Strenuous Taste

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