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Success plus Self-esteem equals Pretensions.

William James

Religion . . . shall mean for us the feelings, acts and experiences of individual men in their solitude.
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Mean Men Solitude
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
You can alter your life by altering the state of your mind.
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Altering Life Mind States
The lunatic’s visions of horror are all drawn from the material of daily fact.
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Facts Insanity Vision
Fear of life in one form or another is the great thing to exorcise.
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Fears Form Great Life Things
For morality life is a war, and the service of the highest is a sort of cosmic patriotism which also calls for volunteers.
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Political Volunteer War
As long as there are postmen, life will have zest.
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Expectations Long Zest
Man lives in only one small room of the enormous house of his consciousness.
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Men Small Rooms Thinking
We with our lives are like islands in the sea, or like trees in the forest… But the trees also commingle their roots in the darkness underground.
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Islands Roots Sea Underground
Man alone of all the creatures of earth can change his own pattern. Man alone is the architect of his own destiny.
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Destiny Men Tree
I don’t sing because I’m happy; I’m happy because I sing.
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Happiness Music Philosophical
The power to move the world is in the subconcious mind
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Mind Moving Subconscious World
Success plus Self-esteem equals Pretensions.
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Congratulations Self Esteem Success
To improve the golden moment of opportunity, and catch the good that is within our reach, is the great art of life.
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Art Life Positive
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
Organization and method mean much, but contagious human characters mean more in a university.
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Character Mean Organization
One of the greatest discoveries of our time is that a man can alter the state of their life by altering the state of their mind.
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Discovery Men Mind
The greatest weapon we have to combat stress is the ability to choose our thoughts.
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Combat Stress Weapons
The general law is that no mental modification ever occurs which is not accompanied or followed by a bodily change.
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Law Medicine Philosophy
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
A man has as many social selves as there are individuals who recognize him.
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Individual Men Self
What would be better for us to believe!’ This sounds very like a definition of truth
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Believe Sound Truth
We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.
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Choices Differences Men Savage
[Religion is] the attempt to be in harmony with an unseen order of things.
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Grace Order Unseen
Anything you may hold firmly in your imagination can be yours.
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Anything Firmly Imagination May
I am well aware how odd it must seem to some of you to hear me say that an idea is true so long as to believe it is profitable to our lives
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Believe Ideas Truth
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

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