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

William James

Religion . . . shall mean for us the feelings, acts and experiences of individual men in their solitude.
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Mean Men Solitude
New habits can be launched.
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Habit New Launched
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
Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive.
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Alive Attitude Authenticity
The mind, in short, works on the data it receives very much as the sculptor works on his block of stone.
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Block Data Mind
The impulse to take life strivingly is indestructible in the race.
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Free Race Vagueness Will
Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
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Encouraging Life Positive
Everything which is demanded is by that fact a good.
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Demanded Everything Facts
It seems the natural thing for us to listen whilst the Europeans talk.
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Natural Political Politics
The education of attention would be an education par excellence
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Attention Education Excellence
As long as there are postmen, life will have zest.
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Expectations Long Zest
It is very important that teachers should realize the importance of habit.
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Important Realizing Teacher
The deepest longing in the human breast is the desire for appreciation.
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Appreciation Creativity Desire
We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.
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Choices Differences Men Savage
Man, whatever else he may be, is primarily a practical being, whose mind is given him to aid in adapting him to this world’s life
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Educational Men Philosophy
Man can change his life simply by changing his attitude.
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Attitude Changing Men

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