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How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.

William James

Impulse without reason is enough, and reason without impulse is a poor makeshift.
WILLIAM JAMES

Enough Poor Reason
Objective evidence and certitude are doubtless very fine ideals to play with, but where on this moonlit and dream-visited planet are they found?
WILLIAM JAMES

Dream Play Science
Success plus Self-esteem equals Pretensions.
WILLIAM JAMES

Congratulations Self Esteem Success
If you give appreciation to people, you win their goodwill. But more important than that, practicing this philosophy has made a different person of me.
WILLIAM JAMES

Appreciation Attitude Philosophy
The deepest human need is the need to be appreciated.
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Appreciated Humans Needs
The education of attention would be an education par excellence
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Attention Education Excellence
Our faith is faith in someone else’s faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.
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Cases Matter Philosophical
Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system
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Credit Facts Truth
There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.
WILLIAM JAMES

Inspirational Philosophical Sadness
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
The ultimate test of what a truth means is the conduct it dictates or inspires.
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Inspire Mean Truth
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
As long as there are postmen, life will have zest.
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Expectations Long Zest
It is very important that teachers should realize the importance of habit.
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Important Realizing Teacher
We want all our friends to tell us our bad qualities; it is only the particular ass that does so whom we can’t tolerate.
WILLIAM JAMES

Best Cute Friendship Friend Quality
We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.
WILLIAM JAMES

Opposites Statement Truth

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