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The strenuous life tastes better

William James

The strenuous life tastes better
WILLIAM JAMES

Better Strenuous Taste
The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
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Inspirational Life Motivational
A man with no philosophy in him is the most inauspicious and unprofitable of all possible social mates.
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Men Philosophy Social
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
The ultimate test of what a truth means is the conduct it dictates or inspires.
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Inspire Mean Truth
New habits can be launched.
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Habit New Launched
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
The minute a man ceases to grow, no matter what his years, that minute he begins to be old.
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Growth Men Years
The greatest weapon we have to combat stress is the ability to choose our thoughts.
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Combat Stress Weapons
The first lecture in psychology that I ever heard was the first I ever gave.
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Firsts Lecture Psychology
Where is it, this present? It has melted in our grasp, fled ere we could touch it, gone in the instant of becoming.
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Becoming Gone Instant
I myself believe that the evidence for God lies primarily in inner personal experiences.
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Belief Believe Experience Lying
The true’to put it very briefly, is only the expedient in the way of our thinking, just as ‘the right’ is only the expedient in the way of our behaving.
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Briefly Thinking True Way
I don’t sing because I’m happy; I’m happy because I sing.
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Happiness Music Philosophical
You can alter your life by altering the state of your mind.
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Altering Life Mind States
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

The strenuous life tastes better

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