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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
The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly.
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Attitude Mean Ugly
Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system
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Credit Facts Truth
A paradise of inward tranquility seems to be faith’s usual result.
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Inward Paradise Usual
Asceticism may be a mere expression of organic hardihood, disgusted with too much ease.
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Asceticism Ease Expression
The total possible consciousness may be split into parts which co-exist but mutually ignore each other.
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Consciousness May Splits
Our intelligence cannot wall itself up alive, like a pupa in a chrysalis. It must at any cost keep on speaking terms with the universe that engendered it.
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Alive Cost Wall
The most immutable barrier in nature is between one man’s thoughts and another’s.
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Barriers Immutable Men
Since you make evil or good by your own thoughts, it is your ruling of your thoughts which proves to be your principal concern.
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Evil Prove Ruling
The question of free will is insoluble on strictly psychological grounds.
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Free Will Psychological
To give up pretensions is as blessed a relief as to get them ratified.
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Blessed Deception Giving Up
We want all our friends to tell us our bad qualities; it is only the particular ass that does so whom we can’t tolerate.
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Best Cute Friendship Friend Quality
Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.
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Clever Motivational Procrastination
Deepest principle of human nature is to be appreciated.
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Appreciated Human Nature Principles
What would be better for us to believe!’ This sounds very like a definition of truth
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Believe Sound Truth
Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.
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Humorous Life Philosophical

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