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Earnestness means willingness to live with energy, though energy bring pain.

William James

Success plus Self-esteem equals Pretensions.
WILLIAM JAMES

Congratulations Self Esteem Success
Procrastination is attitude’s natural assassin. There’s nothing so fatiguing as an uncompleted task
WILLIAM JAMES

Attitude Procrastination Tasks
For morality life is a war, and the service of the highest is a sort of cosmic patriotism which also calls for volunteers.
WILLIAM JAMES

Political Volunteer War
I am well aware how odd it must seem to some of you to hear me say that an idea is true so long as to believe it is profitable to our lives
WILLIAM JAMES

Believe Ideas Truth
We are stereotyped creatures, imitators and copiers of our past selves.
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Habit Past Self
The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.
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Civilization Class Fear
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
Man alone of all the creatures of earth can change his own pattern. Man alone is the architect of his own destiny.
WILLIAM JAMES

Destiny Men Tree
Just for today I will exercise my soul in three ways: I will do somebody a good turn and not get found out. I will do at least two things I don’t want to do
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Exercise Inspiration Somebody Two
We forget that every good that is worth possessing must be paid for in strokes of daily effort.
WILLIAM JAMES

Best Effort Forget Hard Work
If you want to change your life, do it flamboyantly and start immediately.
WILLIAM JAMES

Changing Immediately Life Want
I don’t sing because I’m happy; I’m happy because I sing.
WILLIAM JAMES

Happiness Music Philosophical
Religion . . . shall mean for us the feelings, acts and experiences of individual men in their solitude.
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Mean Men Solitude
To change ones life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly.
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Change Life Philosophical
On pragmatistic principles, if the hypothesis of God works satisfactorily in the widest sense of the word, it is true.
WILLIAM JAMES

God Principles Theism
New habits can be launched.
WILLIAM JAMES

Habit New Launched

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