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William James

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
Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.
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Believe Faith Philosophical
Objective evidence and certitude are doubtless very fine ideals to play with, but where on this moonlit and dream-visited planet are they found?
WILLIAM JAMES

Dream Play Science
A new idea is first condemned as ridiculous and then dismissed as trivial, until finally, it becomes what everybody knows.
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Change Dream Inspirational
Every individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony.
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Agony Individual Lonely
Most unhappiness is caused because people listen to themselves… instead of talking to themselves.
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People Talking Unhappiness
The most immutable barrier in nature is between one man’s thoughts and another’s.
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Barriers Immutable Men
If you give appreciation to people, you win their goodwill. But more important than that, practicing this philosophy has made a different person of me.
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Appreciation Attitude Philosophy
The minute a man ceases to grow, no matter what his years, that minute he begins to be old.
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Growth Men Years
Where quality is the thing sought after, the thing of supreme quality is cheap, whatever the price one has to pay for it.
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Pay Quality Supreme
Time itself comes in drops.
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Come Drop Philosophical Itself
The instant field of the present is at all times what I call the ‘pure’ experience. It is only virtually or potentially either object or subject as yet.
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All Fields Instant Time
To give up pretensions is as blessed a relief as to get them ratified.
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Blessed Deception Giving Up
A new opinion counts as true just in proportion as it gratifies the individual’s desire to assimilate the novel in his experience to his beliefs in stock
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Belief Desire Truth
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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Choices Differences Men Savage
To change ones life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly.
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Change Life Philosophical

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