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The strenuous life tastes better

William James

Touch is the alpha and omega of affection.
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Affection Alpha Omega
So to feel brave, act as if we were brave, use all our will to that end…and a courage-fit will very likely replace the fit of fear.
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Anticipation Brave Use
Man can alter his life by altering his thinking.
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Attitude Philosophical Positive
Asceticism may be a mere expression of organic hardihood, disgusted with too much ease.
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Asceticism Ease Expression
True to her inveterate habit, rationalism reverts to ‘principles,’ and thinks that when an abstraction once is named, we own an oracular solution.
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Habit Principles Thinking
No bell in us tolls to let us know for certain when truth is in our grasp.
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Bells Tolls Truth
Individuality is founded in feeling
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Feelings Individuality Inspirational
Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.
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Clever Motivational Procrastination
When you have broken the reality into concepts you never can reconstruct it in its wholeness.
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Broken Concepts Reality
We hear the words we have spoken, feel our own blow as we give it, or read in the bystander’s eyes the success or failure of our conduct.
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Bystanders Eye Teaching
A man of sense is never discouraged by difficulties; he redoubles his industry and his diligence, he perseveres and infallibly prevails at last.
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Meaningful Motivational Perseverance
New habits can be launched.
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Habit New Launched
The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly.
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Attitude Mean Ugly
There’s nothing so absurd that if you repeat it often enough, people will believe it.
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Believe People Propaganda
The great thing, then, in all education, is to make our nervous system our ally instead of our enemy.
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Allies Education Enemy
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

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