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William James

So to feel brave, act as if we were brave, use all our will to that end…and a courage-fit will very likely replace the fit of fear.
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Anticipation Brave Use
A man has as many social selves as there are individuals who recognize him.
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Individual Men Self
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
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.
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Appreciation Attitude Philosophy
True to her inveterate habit, rationalism reverts to ‘principles,’ and thinks that when an abstraction once is named, we own an oracular solution.
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Habit Principles Thinking
So our self-feeling in this world depends entirely on what we back ourselves to be and do.
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Feelings Self World
All natural happiness thus seems infected with a contradiction. The breath of the sepulchre surrounds it.
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Contradiction Happiness Natural
The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
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Ideas Men Twenties
To some of us the thought of God is like a sort of quiet music playing in the background of the mind.
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Mind Philosophy Quiet
The sovereign cure for worry is prayer.
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Philosophical Prayer Worry
You may not get everything you dream about, but you will never get anything you don’t dream about.
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Anything Dream Everything May
Anything you may hold firmly in your imagination can be yours.
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Anything Firmly Imagination May
No one sees further into a generalization than his own knowledge of detail extends.
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Details Generalization Knowledge
Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.
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Humorous Life Philosophical
It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.
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Inspirational Motivational Positive
Our view of the world is truly shaped by what we decide to hear.
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Decide Shaped Views World

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