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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

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
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
We with our lives are like islands in the sea, or like trees in the forest… But the trees also commingle their roots in the darkness underground.
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Islands Roots Sea Underground
Earnestness means willingness to live with energy, though energy bring pain.
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Energy Mean Pain
Effort is the one strictly undervalued and original contribution we make to this world.
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Contribution Effort World
Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.
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Clever Motivational Procrastination
The mind, in short, works on the data it receives very much as the sculptor works on his block of stone.
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Block Data Mind
Genius is the capacity for seeing relationships where lesser men see none.
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Capacity Genius Men
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
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
All natural happiness thus seems infected with a contradiction. The breath of the sepulchre surrounds it.
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Contradiction Happiness Natural
The question of free will is insoluble on strictly psychological grounds.
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Free Will Psychological
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
The education of attention would be an education par excellence
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Attention Education Excellence
You must bring out of each word its practical cash-value, set it at work within the stream of your experience.
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Cash Experience Stream
The discovery of the power of our thoughts will prove to be the most important discovery of our time
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Discovery Important Positive

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.

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