Owing to the fact that all experience is a process, no point of view can ever be the last one
WILLIAM JAMESWhen thoughts do not neutralize an undesirable emotion, action will.
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The mind, in short, works on the data it receives very much as the sculptor works on his block of stone.
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The minute a man ceases to grow, no matter what his years, that minute he begins to be old.
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A man has as many social selves as there are individuals who recognize him.
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If merely ‘feeling good’ could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.
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If you give appreciation to people, you win their goodwill. But more important than that, practicing this philosophy has made a different person of me.
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It seems the natural thing for us to listen whilst the Europeans talk.
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Objective evidence and certitude are doubtless very fine ideals to play with, but where on this moonlit and dream-visited planet are they found?
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Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.
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Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.
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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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With no attempt there can be no failure; with no failure no humiliation.
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Religion . . . shall mean for us the feelings, acts and experiences of individual men in their solitude.
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It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.
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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.
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We are stereotyped creatures, imitators and copiers of our past selves.
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