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A paradise of inward tranquility seems to be faith’s usual result.

William James

Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive.
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Alive Attitude Authenticity
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
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
Man, whatever else he may be, is primarily a practical being, whose mind is given him to aid in adapting him to this world’s life
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Educational Men Philosophy
Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.
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Hate Inspirational Life
Our beliefs and our attention are the same fact.
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Attention Belief Facts
When you have broken the reality into concepts you never can reconstruct it in its wholeness.
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Broken Concepts Reality
Science, like life, feeds on its own decay. New facts burst old rules; then newly divined conceptions bind old and new together into a reconciling law.
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Law Science Together
Fear of life in one form or another is the great thing to exorcise.
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Fears Form Great Life Things
To know an object is to lead to it through a context which the world provides
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Objects Truth World
To some of us the thought of God is like a sort of quiet music playing in the background of the mind.
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Mind Philosophy Quiet
The sovereign cure for worry is prayer.
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Philosophical Prayer Worry
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 ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
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Ideas Men Twenties
To neglect the wise sayings of great thinkers is to deny ourselves the truest education.
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Deny Neglect Wise
Our beliefs are really rules for action.
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Action Belief Really Rules

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