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You can alter your life by altering the state of your mind.

William James

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
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
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
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.
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Appreciation Attitude Philosophy
We can change our circumstances by a mere change of our attitude.
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Attitude Circumstances Mere
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
Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being.
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Circles People Sith
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
Most men have a good memory for facts connected with their own pursuits.
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Educational Memories Philosophy
Faith is synonymous with working hypothesis.
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Faith Hypothesis
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.
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Finals Lasts Men
The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
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Inspirational Life Motivational
I am well aware how odd it must seem to some of you to hear me say that an idea is true so long as to believe it is profitable to our lives
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Believe Ideas Truth
The ultimate test of what a truth means is the conduct it dictates or inspires.
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Inspire Mean Truth
Once you accept an idea, it’s an idea whose time has come.
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Accepting Daring Ideas
Our faith is faith in someone else’s faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.
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Cases Matter Philosophical

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