Individuality is founded in feeling
WILLIAM JAMESEarnestness means willingness to live with energy, though energy bring pain.
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There is but one unconditional commandment … to bring about the very largest total universe of good which we can see.
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Asceticism may be a mere expression of organic hardihood, disgusted with too much ease.
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The instant field of the present is at all times what I call the ‘pure’ experience. It is only virtually or potentially either object or subject as yet.
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The teachers of this country, one may say, have its future in their hands.
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Fear of life in one form or another is the great thing to exorcise.
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An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.
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The greatest weapon we have to combat stress is the ability to choose our thoughts.
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The emotions aren’t always immediately subject to reason, but they are always immediately subject to action.
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There can be no difference anywhere that does not make a difference somewhere.
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Our view of the world is truly shaped by what we decide to hear.
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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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How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.
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A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.
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All natural goods perish. Riches take wings; fame is a breath; love is a cheat; youth and health and pleasure vanish.
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With no attempt there can be no failure; with no failure no humiliation.
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