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A sense of humor is just common sense dancing.

William James

The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly.
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Attitude Mean Ugly
[T]here is very little difference between one person and another, but what little difference ther eis, is very important.
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Differences Important Personality
Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive.
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Alive Attitude Authenticity
Real culture lives by sympathies and admirations, not by dislikes and disdains; under all misleading wrappings it pounces unerringly upon the human core.
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Culture Life Real
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
Anything you may hold firmly in your imagination can be yours.
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Anything Firmly Imagination May
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
Pretend what we may, the whole man within us is at work when we form our philosophical opinions.
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Men Philosophical Philosophy
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
Religion is a monumental chapter in the history of human egotism.
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Chapters Egotism Religion
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
There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man’s lack of faith in his true Self.
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Esteem Failure Inspirational Self
The lunatic’s visions of horror are all drawn from the material of daily fact.
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Facts Insanity Vision
You can alter your life by altering the state of your mind.
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Altering Life Mind States
Our view of the world is truly shaped by what we decide to hear.
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Decide Shaped Views World
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
Our beliefs are really rules for action.
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Action Belief Really Rules
No living person is sunk so low as not to be imitated by somebody.
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Failure Lows Person
What would be better for us to believe!’ This sounds very like a definition of truth
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Believe Sound Truth
I don’t sing because I’m happy; I’m happy because I sing.
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Happiness Music Philosophical
Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day.
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Effort Exercise Life Love
The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.
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Community Friendship Sympathy
The emotions aren’t always immediately subject to reason, but they are always immediately subject to action.
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Action Emotional Feelings
Everything which is demanded is by that fact a good.
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Demanded Everything Facts
It seems the natural thing for us to listen whilst the Europeans talk.
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Natural Political Politics
To give up pretensions is as blessed a relief as to get them ratified.
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Blessed Deception Giving Up
Our beliefs and our attention are the same fact.
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Attention Belief Facts

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