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Lives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or being.

William James

I don’t sing because I’m happy; I’m happy because I sing.
WILLIAM JAMES

Happiness Music Philosophical
It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.
WILLIAM JAMES

Change Life Positive
The deepest longing in the human breast is the desire for appreciation.
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Appreciation Creativity Desire
Man can alter his life by altering his thinking.
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Attitude Philosophical Positive
The ‘I think’ which Kant said must be able to accompany all my objects, is the ‘I breathe’ which actually does accompany them.
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Able Accompanying Thinking
Impulse without reason is enough, and reason without impulse is a poor makeshift.
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Enough Poor Reason
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
Man, biologically considered … is simply the most formidable of all beasts of prey, and, indeed, the only one that preys systematically on its own kind.
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Beast Kind Men
Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system
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Credit Facts Truth
Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
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Encouraging Life Positive
The sovereign cure for worry is prayer.
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Philosophical Prayer Worry
It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.
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Inspirational Motivational Positive
We with our lives are like islands in the sea, or like trees in the forest… But the trees also commingle their roots in the darkness underground.
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Islands Roots Sea Underground
A man has as many social selves as there are individuals who recognize him.
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Individual Men Self
We hear the words we have spoken, feel our own blow as we give it, or read in the bystander’s eyes the success or failure of our conduct.
WILLIAM JAMES

Bystanders Eye Teaching
Most unhappiness is caused because people listen to themselves… instead of talking to themselves.
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People Talking Unhappiness

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