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

William James

A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.
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Life Stay Strong Ties
Tension is a habit. Relaxing is a habit. Bad habits can be broken, good habits formed.
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Broken Funny Habit
If merely ‘feeling good’ could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.
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Alcohol Feel Feelings Good
On pragmatistic principles, if the hypothesis of God works satisfactorily in the widest sense of the word, it is true.
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God Principles Theism
There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man’s lack of faith in his true Self.
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Esteem Failure Inspirational Self
It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.
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Believe Government Philosophical
Since you make evil or good by your own thoughts, it is your ruling of your thoughts which proves to be your principal concern.
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Evil Prove Ruling
We hear the words we have spoken, feel our own blow as we give it, or read in the bystander’s eyes the success or failure of our conduct.
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Bystanders Eye Teaching
If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.
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Esteem Leadership Quality Self
Habit is a second nature, or rather, it is ‘ten times nature’.
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Educational Inspirational Philosophy
The impulse to take life strivingly is indestructible in the race.
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Free Race Vagueness Will
Impulse without reason is enough, and reason without impulse is a poor makeshift.
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Enough Poor Reason
Each of us is in fact what he is almost exclusively by virtue of his imitative-ness.
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Facts Models Role Virtue
I don’t sing because I’m happy; I’m happy because I sing.
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Happiness Music Philosophical
Asceticism may be a mere expression of organic hardihood, disgusted with too much ease.
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Asceticism Ease Expression
Circumstance does not make me, it reveals me.
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Character Circumstances Enough Repeated

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