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In business for yourself, not by yourself.

William James

The general law is that no mental modification ever occurs which is not accompanied or followed by a bodily change.
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Law Medicine Philosophy
The ‘I think’ which Kant said must be able to accompany all my objects, is the ‘I breathe’ which actually does accompany them.
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Able Accompanying Thinking
Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
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Inspirational Positive Success
Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive.
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Alive Attitude Authenticity
Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.
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Emergencies Encouragement Sith
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
Pure experience’ is the name I gave to the immediate flux of life which furnishes the material to our later reflection with its conceptual categories.
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Flux Names Reflection
All natural happiness thus seems infected with a contradiction. The breath of the sepulchre surrounds it.
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Contradiction Happiness Natural
It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.
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Change Life Positive
The instant field of the present is at all times what I call the ‘pure’ experience. It is only virtually or potentially either object or subject as yet.
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All Fields Instant Time
There can be no difference anywhere that does not make a difference somewhere.
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Differences Making Somewhere
Every individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony.
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Agony Individual Lonely
Man alone of all the creatures of earth can change his own pattern. Man alone is the architect of his own destiny.
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Destiny Men Tree
To give up pretensions is as blessed a relief as to get them ratified.
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Blessed Deception Giving Up
Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.
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Believe Faith Philosophical
To neglect the wise sayings of great thinkers is to deny ourselves the truest education.
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Deny Neglect Wise

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