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Where is it, this present? It has melted in our grasp, fled ere we could touch it, gone in the instant of becoming.

William James

We are thinking beings, and we cannot exclude the intellect from participating in any of our functions.
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Function Intellect Thinking
The total possible consciousness may be split into parts which co-exist but mutually ignore each other.
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Consciousness May Splits
You can alter your life by altering the state of your mind.
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Altering Life Mind States
The most peculiar social self which one is apt to have is in the mind of the person one is in love with.
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Mind Peculiar Self
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
With mere good intentions hell is proverbially paved.
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Good Hell Intention Intentions
Impulse without reason is enough, and reason without impulse is a poor makeshift.
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Enough Poor Reason
The deepest longing in the human breast is the desire for appreciation.
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Appreciation Creativity Desire
Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.
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Emergencies Encouragement Sith
It is art that makes life, and I know of no substitute whatsoever for the force and beauty of its process.
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Art Force Process
Man, whatever else he may be, is primarily a practical being, whose mind is given him to aid in adapting him to this world’s life
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Educational Men Philosophy
When thoughts do not neutralize an undesirable emotion, action will.
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Action Emotion Inspiration
Religion . . . shall mean for us the feelings, acts and experiences of individual men in their solitude.
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Mean Men Solitude
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 mind, in short, works on the data it receives very much as the sculptor works on his block of stone.
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Block Data Mind
New habits can be launched.
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Habit New Launched

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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