The difference between objective and subjective extension is one of relation to a context solely.
WILLIAM JAMESThe question of free will is insoluble on strictly psychological grounds.
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The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.
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Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day.
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The deepest longing in the human breast is the desire for appreciation.
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Asceticism may be a mere expression of organic hardihood, disgusted with too much ease.
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Truth, as any dictionary will tell you, is a property of certain of our ideas. It means their agreement, as falsity means their disagreement, with reality.
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All religions begin with the cry Help.
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We can change our circumstances by a mere change of our attitude.
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Time itself comes in drops.
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[Religion is] the attempt to be in harmony with an unseen order of things.
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A new position of responsibility will usually show a man to be a far stronger creature than was supposed.
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The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.
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Effort is the one strictly undervalued and original contribution we make to this world.
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You can alter your life by altering the state of your mind.
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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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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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Habit is a second nature, or rather, it is ‘ten times nature’.
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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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At bottom, the whole concern of religion is with the manner of our acceptance of the universe.
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The first lecture in psychology that I ever heard was the first I ever gave.
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The deepest hunger in human beings is the desire to be appreciated.
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Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.
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There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.
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Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.
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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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So to feel brave, act as if we were brave, use all our will to that end…and a courage-fit will very likely replace the fit of fear.
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The world is all the richer for having a devil in it, so long as we keep our foot upon his neck.
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