The drunken consciousness is one bit of the mystic consciousness, and our total opinion of it must find its place in our opinion of that larger whole.
WILLIAM JAMESTruth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system
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Earnestness means willingness to live with energy, though energy bring pain.
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The emotions aren’t always immediately subject to reason, but they are always immediately subject to action.
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The impulse to take life strivingly is indestructible in the race.
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The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.
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Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.
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The power to move the world is in the subconcious mind
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When once a decision is reached and execution is the order of the day, dismiss absolutely all responsibility and care about the outcome.
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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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If merely ‘feeling good’ could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.
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The first lecture in psychology that I ever heard was the first I ever gave.
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Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being.
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Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system
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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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We forget that every good that is worth possessing must be paid for in strokes of daily effort.
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Objective evidence and certitude are doubtless very fine ideals to play with, but where on this moonlit and dream-visited planet are they found?
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