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 JAMESIt is art that makes life, and I know of no substitute whatsoever for the force and beauty of its process.
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Men’s activities are occupied into ways — in grappling with external circumstances and in striving to set things at one in their own topsy-turvy mind.
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The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
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How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.
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The education of attention would be an education par excellence
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Success plus Self-esteem equals Pretensions.
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We forget that every good that is worth possessing must be paid for in strokes of daily effort.
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Faith is synonymous with working hypothesis.
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Religious awe is the same organic thrill which we feel in a forest at twilight, or in a mountain gorge.
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The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one.
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Man can alter his life by altering his thinking.
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To change ones life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly.
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The question of free will is insoluble on strictly psychological grounds.
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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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It seems the natural thing for us to listen whilst the Europeans talk.
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All natural happiness thus seems infected with a contradiction. The breath of the sepulchre surrounds it.
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