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When thoughts do not neutralize an undesirable emotion, action will.

William James

Genius is the capacity for seeing relationships where lesser men see none.
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Capacity Genius Men
The most immutable barrier in nature is between one man’s thoughts and another’s.
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Barriers Immutable Men
The deepest human need is the need to be appreciated.
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Appreciated Humans Needs
Asceticism may be a mere expression of organic hardihood, disgusted with too much ease.
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Asceticism Ease Expression
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 man has as many social selves as there are individuals who recognize him.
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Individual Men Self
The total possible consciousness may be split into parts which co-exist but mutually ignore each other.
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Consciousness May Splits
To give up pretensions is as blessed a relief as to get them ratified.
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Blessed Deception Giving Up
Man lives in only one small room of the enormous house of his consciousness.
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Men Small Rooms Thinking
Each of us is in fact what he is almost exclusively by virtue of his imitative-ness.
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Facts Models Role Virtue
Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
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Inspirational Positive Success
Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
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Encouraging Life Positive
Impulse without reason is enough, and reason without impulse is a poor makeshift.
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Enough Poor Reason
Give your dreams all you’ve got, and you’ll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you.
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Basketball Dream Perseverance
Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.
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Believe Faith Philosophical
When you have broken the reality into concepts you never can reconstruct it in its wholeness.
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Broken Concepts Reality
Both thought and feeling are determinants of conduct, and the same conduct may be determined either by feeling or by thought.
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Determine Feelings May
As long as there are postmen, life will have zest.
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Expectations Long Zest
The emotions aren’t always immediately subject to reason, but they are always immediately subject to action.
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Action Emotional Feelings
For the moment, what we attend to is reality.
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Attend Moments Reality
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
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 impulse to take life strivingly is indestructible in the race.
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Free Race Vagueness Will
The lunatic’s visions of horror are all drawn from the material of daily fact.
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Facts Insanity Vision
The God of many men is little more than their court of appeal against the damnatory judgment passed on their failures by the opinion of the world.
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Art Men Philosophy
The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.
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Fear Happiness Stress
When thoughts do not neutralize an undesirable emotion, action will.
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Action Emotion Inspiration

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