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Where is it, this present? It has melted in our grasp, fled ere we could touch it, gone in the instant of becoming.

William James

If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.
WILLIAM JAMES

Leadership Motivation Philosophical
The deepest hunger in human beings is the desire to be appreciated.
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Appreciate Desire Friendship
The greatest weapon we have to combat stress is the ability to choose our thoughts.
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Combat Stress Weapons
Man lives in only one small room of the enormous house of his consciousness.
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Men Small Rooms Thinking
Science, like life, feeds on its own decay. New facts burst old rules; then newly divined conceptions bind old and new together into a reconciling law.
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Law Science Together
Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
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Encouraging Life Positive
For morality life is a war, and the service of the highest is a sort of cosmic patriotism which also calls for volunteers.
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Political Volunteer War
There can be no existence of evil as a force to the healthy-minded individual.
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Evil Healthy Individual
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
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Positive Wisdom Wise
Pure experience’ is the name I gave to the immediate flux of life which furnishes the material to our later reflection with its conceptual categories.
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Flux Names Reflection
To know an object is to lead to it through a context which the world provides
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Objects Truth World
All of our life is but a mass of small habits – practical, emotional, intellectual and spiritual – that bear us irresistibly toward our destiny.
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Destiny Military Spiritual
Truth happens to an idea
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Happens Ideas Truth
Individuality is founded in feeling
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Feelings Individuality Inspirational
The sovereign cure for worry is prayer.
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Philosophical Prayer Worry
A paradise of inward tranquility seems to be faith’s usual result.
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Inward Paradise Usual

Where is it, this present? It has melted in our grasp, fled ere we could touch it, gone in the instant of becoming.

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Where is it, this present? It has melted in our grasp, fled ere we could touch it, gone in the instant of becoming.

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