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• The sovereign voluntary path to cheerfulness, if our spontaneous cheerfulness be lost, is to sit up cheerfully, to look round cheerfully, and to act and speak as if cheerfulness were already there. If such conduct does not make you soon feel cheerful, nothing else on that occasion can. 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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  Fear, Brave, Cheerful

  "Talks to Teachers on Psychology: And to Students on Some of Life's Ideals".

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• Seize the very first possible opportunity to act on every resolution you make, and on every emotional prompting you may experience in the direction of the habits you aspire to gain.

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  Opportunity, Emotional, May

  William James, Robert D Richardson (2010). “The Heart of William James”, p.112, Harvard University Press

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• Success plus Self-esteem equals Pretensions.

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  Success, Self Esteem, Congratulations

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• We are stereotyped creatures, imitators and copiers of our past selves.

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  Past, Self, Habit

  William James (1983). “Talks to Teachers on Psychology and to Students on Some of Life's Ideals”, p.48, Harvard University Press

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• Each of us literally chooses, by his way of attending to things, what sort of universe he shall appear to himself to inhabit.

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  Optimistic, Acting, Way

  William James (2012). “The Principles of Psychology”, p.424, Courier Corporation

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• If an unusual necessity forces us onward, a surprising thing occurs. The fatigue gets worse up to a certain point, when, gradually or suddenly, it passes away and we are fresher than before!

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  Perseverance, Passing Away, Unusual

  William James, Robert D Richardson (2010). “The Heart of William James”, p.267, Harvard University Press

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• The further limits of our being plunge, it seems to me, into an altogether other dimension of existence from the sensible and merely understandable world. Name it the mystical region, or the supernatural region, whichever you choose. So far as our ideal impulses originate in this region (and most of them do originate in it, for we find them possessing us in a way for which we cannot articulately account), we belong to it in a more intimate sense than that in which we belong to the visible world, for we belong in the most intimate sense wherever our ideals belong.

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  Names, World, Way

  William James (1970). “Essays in Pragmatism”, p.131, Simon and Schuster

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• a man does not cry because he is sad, he is sad because he cries

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  Men, Doe, Cry

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• The sovereign voluntary path to cheerfulness, if our spontaneous cheerfulness be lost, is to sit up cheerfully, to look round cheerfully, and to act and speak as if cheerfulness were already there. If such conduct does not make you soon feel cheerful, nothing else on that occasion can.

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  Happiness, Cheerful, Path

  "Talks to Teachers on Psychology: And to Students on Some of Life's Ideals".

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• It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.

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  Life, Change, Positive

  William James (2000). “Pragmatism and Other Writings”, p.294, Penguin

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• In its broadest term, religion says that there is an unseen order, and that our supreme good lies in rightful relations to it.

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  Lying, Order, Unseen

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• The general law is that no mental modification ever occurs which is not accompanied or followed by a bodily change.

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  Philosophy, Law, Medicine

  William James (1950). “The Principles of Psychology”, p.5, Courier Corporation

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• We must make automatic and habitual, as early as possible, as many useful actions as we can, and as carefully guard against the growing into ways that are likely to be disadvantageous.

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  Educational, Philosophy, Science

  William James (2008). “Talks to Teachers on Psychology: And to Students on Some of Life's Ideals”, p.57, Nuvision Pubns

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• Habit is the great flywheel of society.

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  Habit

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• Hogamus, higamous Man is polygamous Higamus, hogamous Woman monogamous.

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  Men

  Quoted in the Oxford Book of Marriage (1990).

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• An unlearned carpenter of my acquaintance once said in my hearing: "There is very little difference between one man and another; but what little there is, is very important." This distinction seems to me to go to the root of the matter.

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  Men, Roots, Differences

  William James (2010). “The Will to Believe: And Other Essays in Popular Philosophy”, p.284, The Floating Press

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• True is the name for whatever idea starts the verification process, useful is the name for its completed function in experience

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  Truth, Names, Ideas

  William James (2013). “Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking (New Thought Edition - Secret Library)”, p.96, Lulu Press, Inc

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• My experience is what I agree to attend to.

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  Agree

  William James (2012). “The Principles of Psychology”, p.402, Courier Corporation

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• Truth in our ideas means their power to work.

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  Truth, Mean, Ideas

  William James (2015). “Pragmatism and the Conception of Thruth”, p.48, William James

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• The greatest enemy of any one of our truths may be the rest of our truths.

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  Truth, Lying, Philosophical

  William James (2012). “Pragmatism”, p.31, Courier Corporation

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• If the grace of God miraculously operates, it probably operates through the subliminal door.

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  Doors, Miracle, Grace

  William James (2013). “The Varieties of Religious Experience”, p.270, Courier Corporation

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• Our esteem for facts has not neutralized in us all religiousness. It is itself almost religious. Our scientific temper is devout.

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  Religious, Facts, Temper

  William James (2015). “Pragmatism: Human Understanding”, p.5, 谷月社

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• Men's activities are occupied into ways -- in grappling with external circumstances and in striving to set things at one in their own topsy-turvy mind.

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  Men, Mind, Way

  William James (2008). “The Letters of William James”, p.62, Cosimo, Inc.

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• It is so human a book that I don't see how belief in its divine authority can survive the reading of it.

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  Bible, Religious, Book

  William James (2016). “William James: Essays and Lectures”, p.173, Routledge

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• This life is worth living, we can say, since it is what we make it.

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  Life, Inspiration, Purpose

  William James (2015). “Essays in Popular Philosophy: Top Essays”, p.42, 谷月社

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