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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.

William James

If merely ‘feeling good’ could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.
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Alcohol Feel Feelings Good
There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood bu those who hear it.
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Lying Misunderstood Statistics
Our view of the world is truly shaped by what we decide to hear.
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Decide Shaped Views World
Wisdom is learning what to overlook.
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Learning Philosophical Wisdom
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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All Fields Instant Time
But facts are facts, and if we only get enough of them theyare sure to combine.
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Combine Enough Fact Facts
The total possible consciousness may be split into parts which co-exist but mutually ignore each other.
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Consciousness May Splits
Asceticism may be a mere expression of organic hardihood, disgusted with too much ease.
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Asceticism Ease Expression
True ideas are those that we can assimilate, validate, corroborate, and verify. False ideas are those that we cannot
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Ideas Truth Verify
Pure experience’ is the name I gave to the immediate flux of life which furnishes the material to our later reflection with its conceptual categories.
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Flux Names Reflection
Religious awe is the same organic thrill which we feel in a forest at twilight, or in a mountain gorge.
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Mountain Religious Twilight
You must bring out of each word its practical cash-value, set it at work within the stream of your experience.
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Cash Experience Stream
Both thought and feeling are determinants of conduct, and the same conduct may be determined either by feeling or by thought.
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Determine Feelings May
A man has as many social selves as there are individuals who recognize him.
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Individual Men Self
Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive.
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Alive Attitude Authenticity
The greatest weapon we have to combat stress is the ability to choose our thoughts.
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Combat Stress Weapons

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