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

William James

Everything which is demanded is by that fact a good.
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Demanded Everything Facts
The question of free will is insoluble on strictly psychological grounds.
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Free Will Psychological
An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.
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Ethics Philosophical Quality
The greatest weapon we have to combat stress is the ability to choose our thoughts.
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Combat Stress Weapons
The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.
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Fear Happiness Stress
Men habitually use only a small part of the power which they actually possess.
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Men Parts Small Use
A man has as many social selves as there are individuals who recognize him.
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Individual Men Self
Religious awe is the same organic thrill which we feel in a forest at twilight, or in a mountain gorge.
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Mountain Religious Twilight
Mankind’s common instinct for reality has always held the world to be essentially a theatre for heroism.
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Heroism Reality Theatre
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
Man can alter his life by altering his thinking.
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Attitude Philosophical Positive
There can be no final truth in ethics any more than in physics, until the last man has had his experience and said his say.
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Finals Lasts Men
Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.
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Humorous Life Philosophical
The discovery of the power of our thoughts will prove to be the most important discovery of our time
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Discovery Important Positive
The impulse to take life strivingly is indestructible in the race.
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Free Race Vagueness Will
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
The great thing, then, in all education, is to make our nervous system our ally instead of our enemy.
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Allies Education Enemy
For the moment, what we attend to is reality.
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Attend Moments Reality
There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.
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Inspirational Philosophical Sadness
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
No living person is sunk so low as not to be imitated by somebody.
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Failure Lows Person
Religion is a monumental chapter in the history of human egotism.
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Chapters Egotism Religion
All religions begin with the cry Help.
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Cry Helping Religion
The deepest hunger in human beings is the desire to be appreciated.
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Appreciate Desire Friendship
Our intelligence cannot wall itself up alive, like a pupa in a chrysalis. It must at any cost keep on speaking terms with the universe that engendered it.
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Alive Cost Wall
Circumstance does not make me, it reveals me.
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Character Circumstances Enough Repeated
No bell in us tolls to let us know for certain when truth is in our grasp.
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Bells Tolls Truth

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