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Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.

William James

Our beliefs and our attention are the same fact.
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Attention Belief Facts
You must bring out of each word its practical cash-value, set it at work within the stream of your experience.
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Cash Experience Stream
The total possible consciousness may be split into parts which co-exist but mutually ignore each other.
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Consciousness May Splits
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
Lives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or being.
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Based Inspirational Life Test
Once you accept an idea, it’s an idea whose time has come.
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Accepting Daring Ideas
The first lecture in psychology that I ever heard was the first I ever gave.
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Firsts Lecture Psychology
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
There can be no final truth in ethics any more than in physics, until the last man has had his experience and said his say.
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Finals Lasts Men
… the intellect, everywhere invasive, shows everywhere its shallowing effect.
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Effects Intellect Shows
Our intelligence cannot wall itself up alive, like a pupa in a chrysalis. It must at any cost keep on speaking terms with the universe that engendered it.
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Alive Cost Wall
To improve the golden moment of opportunity, and catch the good that is within our reach, is the great art of life.
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Art Life Positive
Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
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Encouraging Life Positive
Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
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Inspirational Positive Success
The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.
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Community Friendship Sympathy
Man can change his life simply by changing his attitude.
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Attitude Changing Men

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