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We are proud of a human nature that could be so passionately extreme, but we shrink from advising others to follow the example.

William James

Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
WILLIAM JAMES

Encouraging Life Positive
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.
WILLIAM JAMES

Briefly Thinking True Way
Touch is the alpha and omega of affection.
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Affection Alpha Omega
All natural happiness thus seems infected with a contradiction. The breath of the sepulchre surrounds it.
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Contradiction Happiness Natural
Religion . . . shall mean for us the feelings, acts and experiences of individual men in their solitude.
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Mean Men Solitude
Lives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or being.
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Based Inspirational Life Test
Modern man . . . has not ceased to be credulous . . . the need to believe haunts him.
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Believe Men Needs
To neglect the wise sayings of great thinkers is to deny ourselves the truest education.
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Deny Neglect Wise
If you want to change your life, do it flamboyantly and start immediately.
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Changing Immediately Life Want
Language is the most imperfect and expensive means yet discovered for communicating thought.
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Imperfect Language Mean
A paradise of inward tranquility seems to be faith’s usual result.
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Inward Paradise Usual
Where quality is the thing sought after, the thing of supreme quality is cheap, whatever the price one has to pay for it.
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Pay Quality Supreme
It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.
WILLIAM JAMES

Change Life Positive
We may be in the Universe as dogs and cats are in our libraries, seeing the books and hearing the conversation, but having no inkling of the meaning of it all.
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Book Cat Conservations Dog
If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.
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Esteem Leadership Quality Self
A new position of responsibility will usually show a man to be a far stronger creature than was supposed.
WILLIAM JAMES

Men Responsibility Stronger

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