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You can alter your life by altering the state of your mind.

William James

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
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
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 art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
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Positive Wisdom Wise
You must bring out of each word its practical cash-value, set it at work within the stream of your experience.
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Cash Experience Stream
There is but one unconditional commandment … to bring about the very largest total universe of good which we can see.
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Helping Others Unconditional Volunteering
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
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
Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.
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Believe Faith Philosophical
Let everything you do be done as if it makes a difference.
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Differences Everything Insightful Making
New habits can be launched.
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Habit New Launched
A man with no philosophy in him is the most inauspicious and unprofitable of all possible social mates.
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Men Philosophy Social
Tension is a habit. Relaxing is a habit. Bad habits can be broken, good habits formed.
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Broken Funny Habit
Religion . . . shall mean for us the feelings, acts and experiences of individual men in their solitude.
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Mean Men Solitude
All natural happiness thus seems infected with a contradiction. The breath of the sepulchre surrounds it.
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Contradiction Happiness Natural
To neglect the wise sayings of great thinkers is to deny ourselves the truest education.
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Deny Neglect Wise

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