Men’s activities are occupied into ways — in grappling with external circumstances and in striving to set things at one in their own topsy-turvy mind.
WILLIAM JAMESThe strenuous life tastes better
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The strenuous life tastes better
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Deepest principle of human nature is to be appreciated.
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The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.
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Tension is a habit. Relaxing is a habit. Bad habits can be broken, good habits formed.
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Real culture lives by sympathies and admirations, not by dislikes and disdains; under all misleading wrappings it pounces unerringly upon the human core.
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Man lives in only one small room of the enormous house of his consciousness.
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The greatest weapon we have to combat stress is the ability to choose our thoughts.
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We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.
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Our faith is faith in someone else’s faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.
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When thoughts do not neutralize an undesirable emotion, action will.
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Language is the most imperfect and expensive means yet discovered for communicating thought.
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To know an object is to lead to it through a context which the world provides
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Experience, as we know, has a way of boiling over, and making us correct our present formulas.
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Religious awe is the same organic thrill which we feel in a forest at twilight, or in a mountain gorge.
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Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system
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