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William James
"Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed. which give happiness. Thomas Jefferson We never enjoy perfect happiness; our most fortunate successes are mingled with sadness; some anxieties always perplex the reality of our satisfaction."
William James
Happiness
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"To spend life for something which outlasts it."
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Achievement
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"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."
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Candor
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"The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly. What can be more base and unworthy than the pining, puling, mumping mood, no matter by what outward ills it may have been engendered? What is more injurious to others? What less helpful as a way out of the difficulty? It but fastens and perpetuates the trouble which occasioned it, and increases the total evil of the situation. At all costs, then, we ought to reduce the sway of that mood; we ought to scout it in ourselves and others, and never show it tolerance."
William James
Unhappiness
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"We, the lineal representatives of the successful enactors of one scene of slaughter after another, must, whatever more pacific virtues we may also possess, still carry about with us, ready at any moment to burst into flame, the smoldering and sinister traits of character by means of which they lived through so many massacres, harming others, but themselves unharmed."
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Aggression
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"The deepest principle of human nature is the craving to be appreciated."
William James
Approval
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"Of all the creatures on earth, only human beings can change their patterns. Man alone is the architect of his destiny... Human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives."
William James
Change Inspirational Life Quote of the Day
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"I will act as if what I do makes a difference."
William James
Action
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"If merely ''feeling good'' could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience."
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Alcohol And Alcoholism
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William James
"Events are influenced by our very great desires."
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Desire
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"The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind."
William James
Attitude
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William James
"Spiritual energy flows in and produces effects in the phenomenal world."
William James
Spirit And Spirituality
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William James
"Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create that fact."
William James
Belief Editor's Pick Motivational Pearls of Wisdom Quote of the Day
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"We forget that every good that is worth possessing must be paid for in strokes of daily effort. We postpone and postpone, until those smiling possibilities are dead."
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Effort
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"Every man who possibly can should force himself to a holiday of a full month in a year, whether he feels like taking it or not."
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Vacation
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"Act in earnest and you will become earnest in all you do."
William James
Honesty
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"The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers."
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Middle Class
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"I am done with great things and big plans, great institutions and big success. I am for those tiny, invisible loving human forces that work from individual to individual, creeping through the crannies of the world like so many rootlets, or like the capillary oozing of water, which, if given time, will rend the hardest monuments of pride."
William James
Pride
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"The greatest discovery of our generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind. As you think, so shall you be."
William James
Attitude Change Discovery Inspirational Life Motivational Quote of the Day
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"Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible."
William James
Faith
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"Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune."
William James
Adversity
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