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Tension is a habit. Relaxing is a habit. Bad habits can be broken, good habits formed.

William James

The strenuous life tastes better
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Better Strenuous Taste
To know an object is to lead to it through a context which the world provides
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Objects Truth World
One of the greatest discoveries of our time is that a man can alter the state of their life by altering the state of their mind.
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Discovery Men Mind
Our view of the world is truly shaped by what we decide to hear.
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Decide Shaped Views World
The most peculiar social self which one is apt to have is in the mind of the person one is in love with.
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Mind Peculiar Self
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
No one sees further into a generalization than his own knowledge of detail extends.
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Details Generalization Knowledge
There can be no difference anywhere that does not make a difference somewhere.
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Differences Making Somewhere
The education of attention would be an education par excellence
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Attention Education Excellence
Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
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Encouraging Life Positive
We may be in the Universe as dogs and cats are in our libraries, seeing the books and hearing the conversation, but having no inkling of the meaning of it all.
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Book Cat Conservations Dog
A new position of responsibility will usually show a man to be a far stronger creature than was supposed.
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Men Responsibility Stronger
Truth happens to an idea
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Happens Ideas Truth
Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day.
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Effort Exercise Life Love
But facts are facts, and if we only get enough of them theyare sure to combine.
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Combine Enough Fact Facts
Individuality is founded in feeling
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Feelings Individuality Inspirational

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