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William James

The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.
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Community Friendship Sympathy
Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive.
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Alive Attitude Authenticity
Asceticism may be a mere expression of organic hardihood, disgusted with too much ease.
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Asceticism Ease Expression
The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.
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Fear Happiness Stress
One of the greatest discoveries of our time is that a man can alter the state of their life by altering the state of their mind.
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Discovery Men Mind
Procrastination is attitude’s natural assassin. There’s nothing so fatiguing as an uncompleted task
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Attitude Procrastination Tasks
The teachers of this country, one may say, have its future in their hands.
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Country Teacher Teaching
If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.
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Esteem Leadership Quality Self
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 true’to put it very briefly, is only the expedient in the way of our thinking, just as ‘the right’ is only the expedient in the way of our behaving.
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Briefly Thinking True Way
To give up pretensions is as blessed a relief as to get them ratified.
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Blessed Deception Giving Up
We with our lives are like islands in the sea, or like trees in the forest… But the trees also commingle their roots in the darkness underground.
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Islands Roots Sea Underground
If merely ‘feeling good’ could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.
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Alcohol Feel Feelings Good
When you have broken the reality into concepts you never can reconstruct it in its wholeness.
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Broken Concepts Reality
The deepest longing in the human breast is the desire for appreciation.
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Appreciation Creativity Desire
To change ones life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly.
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Change Life Philosophical

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