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All of our life is but a mass of small habits – practical, emotional, intellectual and spiritual – that bear us irresistibly toward our destiny.

William James

At bottom, the whole concern of religion is with the manner of our acceptance of the universe.
WILLIAM JAMES

Acceptance Wisdom Wise
The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly.
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Attitude Mean Ugly
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
Give your dreams all you’ve got, and you’ll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you.
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Basketball Dream Perseverance
The first lecture in psychology that I ever heard was the first I ever gave.
WILLIAM JAMES

Firsts Lecture Psychology
The intellectual life of man consists almost wholly in his substitution of conceptual order for the perceptual order in which his experience originally comes.
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Intellectual Men Order
Most men have a good memory for facts connected with their own pursuits.
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Educational Memories Philosophy
But facts are facts, and if we only get enough of them theyare sure to combine.
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Combine Enough Fact Facts
If you want to change your life, do it flamboyantly and start immediately.
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Changing Immediately Life Want
A new position of responsibility will usually show a man to be a far stronger creature than was supposed.
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Men Responsibility Stronger
The sovereign cure for worry is prayer.
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Philosophical Prayer Worry
With mere good intentions hell is proverbially paved.
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Good Hell Intention Intentions
Man can alter his life by altering his thinking.
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Attitude Philosophical Positive
Habit is a second nature, or rather, it is ‘ten times nature’.
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Educational Inspirational Philosophy
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
Asceticism may be a mere expression of organic hardihood, disgusted with too much ease.
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Asceticism Ease Expression

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