"Do every day or two something for no other reason than its difficulty."
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"I don't sing because I'm happy; I'm happy because I sing."
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"The sovereign cure for worry is prayer."
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"Give your dreams all you've got, and you'll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you."
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"The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it." "This life is worth living, we can say, since it is what we make it." "Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact."
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"Smitten as we are with the vision of social righteousness, a God indifferent to everything but adulation, and full of partiality for his individual favorites, lacks an essential element of largeness."
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"Cramming seeks to stamp things in by intense application immediately before the ordeal. But a thing thus learned can form but few associations."
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"There are 3 rules to follow if you want to change; (1) Start immediately, (2) Do it flamboyantly, (3) No exceptions."
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"Wisdom is learning what to overlook."
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"Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice."
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"To be radical, an empiricism must neither admit into its constructions any element that is not directly experienced, nor exclude from them any element that is directly experienced."
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"Belief creates the actual fact."
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"Since you make evil or good by your own thoughts, it is your ruling of your thoughts which proves to be your principal concern."
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"The mind is made up by what it feeds upon."
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"If you want a quality, act as if you already had it."
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"Pragmatism asks its usual question. "Grant an idea or belief to be true," it says, "what concrete difference will its being true make in anyone's actual life? How will the truth be realized? What experiences will be different from those which would obtain if the belief were false? What, in short, is the truth's cash-value in experiential terms?"
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"The strenuous life tastes better"
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"Lives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or being."
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"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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"We don't laugh because we're happy - we're happy because we laugh."
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