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We are stereotyped creatures, imitators and copiers of our past selves.

William James

The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.
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Inspirational Motivational Relationship
True to her inveterate habit, rationalism reverts to ‘principles,’ and thinks that when an abstraction once is named, we own an oracular solution.
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Habit Principles Thinking
An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.
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Ethics Philosophical Quality
The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.
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Fear Happiness Stress
Footnotes — little dogs yapping at the heels of the text
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Dog Littles Writing
It is art that makes life, and I know of no substitute whatsoever for the force and beauty of its process.
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Art Force Process
Our beliefs are really rules for action.
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Action Belief Really Rules
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
The drunken consciousness is one bit of the mystic consciousness, and our total opinion of it must find its place in our opinion of that larger whole.
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Consciousness Mystic Opinion
The sovereign cure for worry is prayer.
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Philosophical Prayer Worry
As long as there are postmen, life will have zest.
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Expectations Long Zest
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
To change ones life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly.
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Change Life Philosophical
You may not get everything you dream about, but you will never get anything you don’t dream about.
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Anything Dream Everything May
Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day.
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Effort Exercise Life Love

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