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

William James

You may not get everything you dream about, but you will never get anything you don’t dream about.
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Anything Dream Everything May
A paradise of inward tranquility seems to be faith’s usual result.
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Inward Paradise Usual
We forget that every good that is worth possessing must be paid for in strokes of daily effort.
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Best Effort Forget Hard Work
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
You can alter your life by altering the state of your mind.
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Altering Life Mind States
Man lives in only one small room of the enormous house of his consciousness.
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Men Small Rooms Thinking
Modern man . . . has not ceased to be credulous . . . the need to believe haunts him.
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Believe Men Needs
There can be no difference anywhere that does not make a difference somewhere.
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Differences Making Somewhere
The power to move the world is in the subconcious mind
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Mind Moving Subconscious World
The lunatic’s visions of horror are all drawn from the material of daily fact.
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Facts Insanity Vision
There’s nothing so absurd that if you repeat it often enough, people will believe it.
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Believe People Propaganda
The most immutable barrier in nature is between one man’s thoughts and another’s.
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Barriers Immutable Men
The ‘I think’ which Kant said must be able to accompany all my objects, is the ‘I breathe’ which actually does accompany them.
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Able Accompanying Thinking
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
Philosophy lives in words, but truth and fact well up into our lives in ways that exceed verbal formulation.
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Facts Philosophy Way
It is very important that teachers should realize the importance of habit.
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Important Realizing Teacher

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