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The general law is that no mental modification ever occurs which is not accompanied or followed by a bodily change.

William James

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.
WILLIAM JAMES

Anticipation Brave Use
The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.
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Inspirational Motivational Relationship
No bell in us tolls to let us know for certain when truth is in our grasp.
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Bells Tolls Truth
Just for today I will exercise my soul in three ways: I will do somebody a good turn and not get found out. I will do at least two things I don’t want to do
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Exercise Inspiration Somebody Two
He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed.
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Encouragement Encouraging Inspirational
I myself believe that the evidence for God lies primarily in inner personal experiences.
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Belief Believe Experience Lying
Religion is a monumental chapter in the history of human egotism.
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Chapters Egotism Religion
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
Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
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Encouraging Life Positive
To know an object is to lead to it through a context which the world provides
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Objects Truth World
Modern man . . . has not ceased to be credulous . . . the need to believe haunts him.
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Believe Men Needs
Circumstance does not make me, it reveals me.
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Character Circumstances Enough Repeated
It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.
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Believe Government Philosophical
All natural happiness thus seems infected with a contradiction. The breath of the sepulchre surrounds it.
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Contradiction Happiness Natural
If you want to change your life, do it flamboyantly and start immediately.
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Changing Immediately Life Want
A new idea is first condemned as ridiculous and then dismissed as trivial, until finally, it becomes what everybody knows.
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Change Dream Inspirational

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