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The greatest weapon we have to combat stress is the ability to choose our thoughts.

William James

You can alter your life by altering the state of your mind.
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Altering Life Mind States
If you want to change your life, do it flamboyantly and start immediately.
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Changing Immediately Life Want
We hear the words we have spoken, feel our own blow as we give it, or read in the bystander’s eyes the success or failure of our conduct.
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Bystanders Eye Teaching
Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
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Inspirational Positive Success
Success plus Self-esteem equals Pretensions.
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Congratulations Self Esteem Success
The total possible consciousness may be split into parts which co-exist but mutually ignore each other.
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Consciousness May Splits
The strenuous life tastes better
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Better Strenuous Taste
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
To neglect the wise sayings of great thinkers is to deny ourselves the truest education.
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Deny Neglect Wise
So to feel brave, act as if we were brave, use all our will to that end…and a courage-fit will very likely replace the fit of fear.
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Anticipation Brave Use
Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system
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Credit Facts Truth
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
No one sees further into a generalization than his own knowledge of detail extends.
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Details Generalization Knowledge
[Religion is] the attempt to be in harmony with an unseen order of things.
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Grace Order Unseen
At bottom, the whole concern of religion is with the manner of our acceptance of the universe.
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Acceptance Wisdom Wise
The emotions aren’t always immediately subject to reason, but they are always immediately subject to action.
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Action Emotional Feelings
The deepest hunger in human beings is the desire to be appreciated.
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Appreciate Desire Friendship
We want all our friends to tell us our bad qualities; it is only the particular ass that does so whom we can’t tolerate.
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Best Cute Friendship Friend Quality
Procrastination is attitude’s natural assassin. There’s nothing so fatiguing as an uncompleted task
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Attitude Procrastination Tasks
Experience, as we know, has a way of boiling over, and making us correct our present formulas.
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Boiling Experience Over Way
Time itself comes in drops.
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Come Drop Philosophical Itself
We must be careful not to confuse data with the abstractions we use to analyse them.
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Data Powerful Science
Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.
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Humorous Life Philosophical
It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.
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Change Life Positive
There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.
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Inspirational Philosophical Sadness
On pragmatistic principles, if the hypothesis of God works satisfactorily in the widest sense of the word, it is true.
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God Principles Theism
Religious awe is the same organic thrill which we feel in a forest at twilight, or in a mountain gorge.
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Mountain Religious Twilight

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