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

William James

To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.
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Abnormal Philosophical Understanding
Truth happens to an idea
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Happens Ideas Truth
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
It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.
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Believe Government Philosophical
I am well aware how odd it must seem to some of you to hear me say that an idea is true so long as to believe it is profitable to our lives
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Believe Ideas Truth
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
The intellectual life of man consists almost wholly in his substitution of conceptual order for the perceptual order in which his experience originally comes.
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Intellectual Men Order
The power to move the world is in the subconcious mind
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Mind Moving Subconscious World
To change ones life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly.
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Change Life Philosophical
Anything you may hold firmly in your imagination can be yours.
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Anything Firmly Imagination May
An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.
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Ethics Philosophical Quality
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
You can alter your life by altering the state of your mind.
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Altering Life Mind States
Man alone of all the creatures of earth can change his own pattern. Man alone is the architect of his own destiny.
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Destiny Men Tree
How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.
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Happiness Laughter Men
A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.
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Life Stay Strong Ties

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