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For the moment, what we attend to is reality.

William James

The first lecture in psychology that I ever heard was the first I ever gave.
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Firsts Lecture Psychology
Most unhappiness is caused because people listen to themselves… instead of talking to themselves.
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People Talking Unhappiness
Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day.
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Effort Exercise Life Love
Our beliefs are really rules for action.
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Action Belief Really Rules
Habit is thus the enormous fly-wheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. It alone is what keeps us all within the bounds of ordinance.
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Agents Ordinance Uprising Wheels
If you want to change your life, do it flamboyantly and start immediately.
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Changing Immediately Life Want
When you have broken the reality into concepts you never can reconstruct it in its wholeness.
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Broken Concepts Reality
But facts are facts, and if we only get enough of them theyare sure to combine.
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Combine Enough Fact Facts
Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.
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Emergencies Encouragement Sith
Earnestness means willingness to live with energy, though energy bring pain.
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Energy Mean Pain
The question of free will is insoluble on strictly psychological grounds.
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Free Will Psychological
At bottom, the whole concern of religion is with the manner of our acceptance of the universe.
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Acceptance Wisdom Wise
The impulse to take life strivingly is indestructible in the race.
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Free Race Vagueness Will
Our beliefs and our attention are the same fact.
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Attention Belief Facts
As long as there are postmen, life will have zest.
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Expectations Long Zest
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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