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Earnestness means willingness to live with energy, though energy bring pain.

William James

For the moment, what we attend to is reality.
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Attend Moments Reality
If you want to change your life, do it flamboyantly and start immediately.
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Changing Immediately Life Want
The first lecture in psychology that I ever heard was the first I ever gave.
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Firsts Lecture Psychology
An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.
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Ethics Philosophical Quality
Success plus Self-esteem equals Pretensions.
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Congratulations Self Esteem Success
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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Block Data Mind
Focus on increasing service. Becoming great where you are. Pile in the wood. The heat will follow.
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Becoming Great Focus Woods
A new idea is first condemned as ridiculous and then dismissed as trivial, until finally, it becomes what everybody knows.
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Change Dream Inspirational
Just for today I will exercise my soul in three ways: I will do somebody a good turn and not get found out. I will do at least two things I don’t want to do
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Exercise Inspiration Somebody Two
It is art that makes life, and I know of no substitute whatsoever for the force and beauty of its process.
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Art Force Process
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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Men Mind Way
The ultimate test of what a truth means is the conduct it dictates or inspires.
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Inspire Mean Truth
Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.
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Believe Faith Philosophical
Where is it, this present? It has melted in our grasp, fled ere we could touch it, gone in the instant of becoming.
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Becoming Gone Instant
To give up pretensions is as blessed a relief as to get them ratified.
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Blessed Deception Giving Up
The question of free will is insoluble on strictly psychological grounds.
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Free Will Psychological

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