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Owing to the fact that all experience is a process, no point of view can ever be the last one

William James

Most unhappiness is caused because people listen to themselves… instead of talking to themselves.
WILLIAM JAMES

People Talking Unhappiness
You can alter your life by altering the state of your mind.
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Altering Life Mind States
Science, like life, feeds on its own decay. New facts burst old rules; then newly divined conceptions bind old and new together into a reconciling law.
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Law Science Together
All natural goods perish. Riches take wings; fame is a breath; love is a cheat; youth and health and pleasure vanish.
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Health Love Wings
It is art that makes life, and I know of no substitute whatsoever for the force and beauty of its process.
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Art Force Process
On pragmatistic principles, if the hypothesis of God works satisfactorily in the widest sense of the word, it is true.
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God Principles Theism
He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed.
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Encouragement Encouraging Inspirational
Philosophy lives in words, but truth and fact well up into our lives in ways that exceed verbal formulation.
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Facts Philosophy Way
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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Inspirational Motivational Positive
For the moment, what we attend to is reality.
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Attend Moments Reality
But facts are facts, and if we only get enough of them theyare sure to combine.
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Combine Enough Fact Facts
We are thinking beings, and we cannot exclude the intellect from participating in any of our functions.
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Function Intellect Thinking
No living person is sunk so low as not to be imitated by somebody.
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Failure Lows Person
Fear of life in one form or another is the great thing to exorcise.
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Fears Form Great Life Things
Men habitually use only a small part of the power which they actually possess.
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Men Parts Small Use
When you have broken the reality into concepts you never can reconstruct it in its wholeness.
WILLIAM JAMES

Broken Concepts Reality

Owing to the fact that all experience is a process, no point of view can ever be the last one

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