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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.

William James

The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.
WILLIAM JAMES

Community Friendship Sympathy
There can be no final truth in ethics any more than in physics, until the last man has had his experience and said his say.
WILLIAM JAMES

Finals Lasts Men
There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man’s lack of faith in his true Self.
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Esteem Failure Inspirational Self
Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
WILLIAM JAMES

Encouraging Life Positive
Asceticism may be a mere expression of organic hardihood, disgusted with too much ease.
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Asceticism Ease Expression
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
A new opinion counts as true just in proportion as it gratifies the individual’s desire to assimilate the novel in his experience to his beliefs in stock
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Belief Desire Truth
The impulse to take life strivingly is indestructible in the race.
WILLIAM JAMES

Free Race Vagueness Will
[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
The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.
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Fear Happiness Stress
There’s nothing so absurd that if you repeat it often enough, people will believe it.
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Believe People Propaganda
Most unhappiness is caused because people listen to themselves… instead of talking to themselves.
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People Talking Unhappiness
You can alter your life by altering the state of your mind.
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Altering Life Mind States
Objective evidence and certitude are doubtless very fine ideals to play with, but where on this moonlit and dream-visited planet are they found?
WILLIAM JAMES

Dream Play Science
Deepest principle of human nature is to be appreciated.
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Appreciated Human Nature Principles
Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.
WILLIAM JAMES

Emergencies Encouragement Sith

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