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Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive.

William James

To improve the golden moment of opportunity, and catch the good that is within our reach, is the great art of life.
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Art Life Positive
When thoughts do not neutralize an undesirable emotion, action will.
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Action Emotion Inspiration
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
A new position of responsibility will usually show a man to be a far stronger creature than was supposed.
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Men Responsibility Stronger
[T]here is very little difference between one person and another, but what little difference ther eis, is very important.
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Differences Important Personality
Experience, as we know, has a way of boiling over, and making us correct our present formulas.
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Boiling Experience Over Way
We hear the words we have spoken, feel our own blow as we give it, or read in the bystander’s eyes the success or failure of our conduct.
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Bystanders Eye Teaching
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
Man can alter his life by altering his thinking.
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Attitude Philosophical Positive
The total possible consciousness may be split into parts which co-exist but mutually ignore each other.
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Consciousness May Splits
Truth for us is simply a collective name for verification processes
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Names Process Truth
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 first lecture in psychology that I ever heard was the first I ever gave.
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Firsts Lecture Psychology
Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system
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Credit Facts Truth
Tension is a habit. Relaxing is a habit. Bad habits can be broken, good habits formed.
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Broken Funny Habit
Philosophy lives in words, but truth and fact well up into our lives in ways that exceed verbal formulation.
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Facts Philosophy Way

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