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.
WILLIAM JAMESIndividuality is founded in feeling
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The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly.
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As long as there are postmen, life will have zest.
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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.
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Since you make evil or good by your own thoughts, it is your ruling of your thoughts which proves to be your principal concern.
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The most immutable barrier in nature is between one man’s thoughts and another’s.
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The God of many men is little more than their court of appeal against the damnatory judgment passed on their failures by the opinion of the world.
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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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Success plus Self-esteem equals Pretensions.
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Circumstance does not make me, it reveals me.
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No living person is sunk so low as not to be imitated by somebody.
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The intellectual life of man consists almost wholly in his substitution of conceptual order for the perceptual order in which his experience originally comes.
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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.
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The discovery of the power of our thoughts will prove to be the most important discovery of our time
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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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Lives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or being.
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