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" Let everything you do be done as if it makes a difference. "
William James
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" The sovereign cure for worry is prayer. "
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" An idea, to be suggestive, must come to the individual with the force of revelation. "
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" 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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" Metaphysics means nothing but an unusually obstinate effort to think clearly. "
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" The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes. "
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" 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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" Genius... means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way. "
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" When you have to make a choice and don't make it, that is in itself a choice. "
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" It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again. "
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" I don't sing because I'm happy; I'm happy because I sing. "
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" Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind. "
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" Whatever universe a professor believes in must at any rate be a universe that lends itself to lengthy discourse. A universe definable in two sentences is something for which the professorial intellect has no use. No faith in anything of that cheap kind! "
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Kind
Universe
" Belief creates the actual fact. "
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" The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook. "
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" Begin to be now what you will be hereafter. "
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" Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact. "
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" Be willing to have it so. Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune. "
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" Action may not bring happiness but there is no happiness without action. "
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May
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" We have to live today by what truth we can get today and be ready tomorrow to call it falsehood. "
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" There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers. "
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" We don't laugh because we're happy - we're happy because we laugh. "
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" Why should we think upon things that are lovely? Because thinking determines life. It is a common habit to blame life upon the environment. Environment modifies life but does not govern life. The soul is stronger than its surroundings. "
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" Action seems to follow feeling, but really action and feeling go together; and by regulating the action, which is under the more direct control of the will, we can indirectly regulate the feeling, which is not. "
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" One hearty laugh together will bring enemies into a closer communion of heart than hours spent on both sides in inward wrestling with the mental demon of uncharitable feeling. "
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