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Our beliefs are really rules for action.

William James

Lives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or being.
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Based Inspirational Life Test
A paradise of inward tranquility seems to be faith’s usual result.
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Inward Paradise Usual
The discovery of the power of our thoughts will prove to be the most important discovery of our time
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Discovery Important Positive
Objective evidence and certitude are doubtless very fine ideals to play with, but where on this moonlit and dream-visited planet are they found?
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Dream Play Science
Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
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Inspirational Positive 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
Truth is something that happens to an idea.
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Happen Ideas Truth
I don’t sing because I’m happy; I’m happy because I sing.
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Happiness Music Philosophical
If you want to change your life, do it flamboyantly and start immediately.
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Changing Immediately Life Want
Most unhappiness is caused because people listen to themselves… instead of talking to themselves.
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People Talking Unhappiness
If you give appreciation to people, you win their goodwill. But more important than that, practicing this philosophy has made a different person of me.
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Appreciation Attitude Philosophy
The total possible consciousness may be split into parts which co-exist but mutually ignore each other.
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Consciousness May Splits
When once a decision is reached and execution is the order of the day, dismiss absolutely all responsibility and care about the outcome.
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Decision Order Responsibility
Philosophy lives in words, but truth and fact well up into our lives in ways that exceed verbal formulation.
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Facts Philosophy Way
The most peculiar social self which one is apt to have is in the mind of the person one is in love with.
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Mind Peculiar Self
The difference between objective and subjective extension is one of relation to a context solely.
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Differences Extensions Relation

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