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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

To give up pretensions is as blessed a relief as to get them ratified.
WILLIAM JAMES

Blessed Deception Giving Up
Touch is the alpha and omega of affection.
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Affection Alpha Omega
Man can alter his life by altering his thinking.
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Attitude Philosophical Positive
The sovereign cure for worry is prayer.
WILLIAM JAMES

Philosophical Prayer Worry
Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.
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Emergencies Encouragement Sith
Genius is the capacity for seeing relationships where lesser men see none.
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Capacity Genius Men
There can be no difference anywhere that does not make a difference somewhere.
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Differences Making Somewhere
For morality life is a war, and the service of the highest is a sort of cosmic patriotism which also calls for volunteers.
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Political Volunteer War
Men’s activities are occupied into ways — in grappling with external circumstances and in striving to set things at one in their own topsy-turvy mind.
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Men Mind Way
All religions begin with the cry Help.
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Cry Helping Religion
Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.
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Clever Motivational Procrastination
I don’t sing because I’m happy; I’m happy because I sing.
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Happiness Music Philosophical
Religion . . . shall mean for us the feelings, acts and experiences of individual men in their solitude.
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Mean Men Solitude
We must be careful not to confuse data with the abstractions we use to analyse them.
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Data Powerful Science
The total possible consciousness may be split into parts which co-exist but mutually ignore each other.
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Consciousness May Splits
There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man’s lack of faith in his true Self.
WILLIAM JAMES

Esteem Failure Inspirational Self

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