If merely ‘feeling good’ could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.
WILLIAM JAMESIf 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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There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood bu those who hear it.
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Our view of the world is truly shaped by what we decide to hear.
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Wisdom is learning what to overlook.
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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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But facts are facts, and if we only get enough of them theyare sure to combine.
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The total possible consciousness may be split into parts which co-exist but mutually ignore each other.
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Asceticism may be a mere expression of organic hardihood, disgusted with too much ease.
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True ideas are those that we can assimilate, validate, corroborate, and verify. False ideas are those that we cannot
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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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Religious awe is the same organic thrill which we feel in a forest at twilight, or in a mountain gorge.
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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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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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A man has as many social selves as there are individuals who recognize him.
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Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive.
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The greatest weapon we have to combat stress is the ability to choose our thoughts.
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