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

William James

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
We can change our circumstances by a mere change of our attitude.
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Attitude Circumstances Mere
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
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
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Positive Wisdom Wise
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
Habit is thus the enormous fly-wheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. It alone is what keeps us all within the bounds of ordinance.
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Agents Ordinance Uprising Wheels
An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.
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Ethics Philosophical Quality
Every individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony.
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Agony Individual Lonely
You can alter your life by altering the state of your mind.
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Altering Life Mind States
Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.
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Emergencies Encouragement Sith
The lunatic’s visions of horror are all drawn from the material of daily fact.
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Facts Insanity Vision
If merely ‘feeling good’ could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.
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Alcohol Feel Feelings Good
The instant field of the present is at all times what I call the ‘pure’ experience. It is only virtually or potentially either object or subject as yet.
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All Fields Instant Time
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
If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.
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Esteem Leadership Quality Self
In business for yourself, not by yourself.
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Business Inspirational Philosophical

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