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At bottom, the whole concern of religion is with the manner of our acceptance of the universe.

William James

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
Tension is a habit. Relaxing is a habit. Bad habits can be broken, good habits formed.
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Broken Funny Habit
We are thinking beings, and we cannot exclude the intellect from participating in any of our functions.
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Function Intellect Thinking
With no attempt there can be no failure; with no failure no humiliation.
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Attempt Failure Humiliation No
The total possible consciousness may be split into parts which co-exist but mutually ignore each other.
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Consciousness May Splits
So it is with children who learn to read fluently and well: They begin to take flight into whole new worlds as effortlessly as young birds take to the sky.
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Children Effortless Reading Sky
There can be no existence of evil as a force to the healthy-minded individual.
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Evil Healthy Individual
The greatest weapon we have to combat stress is the ability to choose our thoughts.
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Combat Stress Weapons
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
Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.
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Clever Motivational Procrastination
The great thing, then, in all education, is to make our nervous system our ally instead of our enemy.
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Allies Education Enemy
The deepest human need is the need to be appreciated.
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Appreciated Humans Needs
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
If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.
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Esteem Leadership Quality Self
When you have broken the reality into concepts you never can reconstruct it in its wholeness.
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Broken Concepts Reality
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

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