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So our self-feeling in this world depends entirely on what we back ourselves to be and do.

William James

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
The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.
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Fear Happiness Stress
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
We are proud of a human nature that could be so passionately extreme, but we shrink from advising others to follow the example.
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Example Human Nature Proud
We must be careful not to confuse data with the abstractions we use to analyse them.
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Data Powerful Science
Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day.
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Effort Exercise Life Love
The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly.
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Attitude Mean Ugly
If you want to change your life, do it flamboyantly and start immediately.
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Changing Immediately Life Want
Man can change his life simply by changing his attitude.
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Attitude Changing Men
Each of us is in fact what he is almost exclusively by virtue of his imitative-ness.
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Facts Models Role Virtue
Every individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony.
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Agony Individual Lonely
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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Decision Order Responsibility
Man, whatever else he may be, is primarily a practical being, whose mind is given him to aid in adapting him to this world’s life
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Educational Men Philosophy
Our beliefs are really rules for action.
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Action Belief Really Rules
A sense of humor is just common sense dancing.
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Common Dance Humor Sense
Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive.
WILLIAM JAMES

Alive Attitude Authenticity

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