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• Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day.

  William James

  Life And Love, Exercise, Effort

  William James (2012). “Psychology: The Briefer Course”, p.15, Courier Corporation

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• Effort is a measure of a Man.

  William James

  Sports, Hockey, Men

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• We are doomed to cling to a life even while we find it unendurable.

  William James

  Life, Philosophical, Fate

  William James (1987). “Essays, Comments, and Reviews”, p.3, Harvard University Press

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• The sway of alcohol over mankind is unquestionably due to its power to stimulate the mystical faculties of human nature, usually crushed to earth by the cold facts and dry criticisms of the sober hour.

  William James

  Beer, Alcohol, Criticism

  William James (2013). “The Varieties of Religious Experience”, p.387, Courier Corporation

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• Emotional occasions, especially violent ones, are extremely potent in precipitating mental rearrangements. The sudden and explosive ways in which love, jealousy, guilt, fear, remorse, or anger can seize upon one are known to everybody. . . . And emotions that come in this explosive way seldom leave things as they found them.

  William James

  Jealousy, Emotional, Guilt

  William James (1987). “Writings, 1902-1910”, p.185, Library of America

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• The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly.

  William James

  Attitude, Mean, Ugly

  William James (2015). “The Varieties of Religious Experience”, p.88, Booklassic

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• Since you make evil or good by your own thoughts, it is your ruling of your thoughts which proves to be your principal concern.

  William James

  Evil, Ruling, Prove

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• Strength is a facade for the proud, weakness is a mask for the lazy.

  William James

  Lazy, Weakness, Proud

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• Spiritual energy flows in and produces effects, psychological or material, within the phenomenal world.

  William James

  Spiritual, Energy, World

  "The Varieties of Religious Experience".

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• The education of attention would be an education par excellence

  William James

  Excellence, Would Be, Attention

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• He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed.

  William James

  Inspirational, Encouraging, Encouragement

  William James (2015). “Essays in Popular Philosophy: Top Essays”, p.7, 谷月社

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• [Religion is] the attempt to be in harmony with an unseen order of things.

  William James

  Order, Grace, Unseen

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• The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it." "This life is worth living, we can say, since it is what we make it." "Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.

  William James

  Inspirational Life, Believe, Use

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• There's nothing so absurd
  that if you repeat it often enough,
  people will believe it.

  William James

  Believe, People, Propaganda

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• So our self-feeling in this world depends entirely on what we back ourselves to be and do.

  William James

  Self, Feelings, World

  William James (2012). “The Principles of Psychology”, p.310, Courier Corporation

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• Life shall be built in doing and suffering and creating.

  William James

  Creating, Suffering, Built

  William James, Frederick Burkhardt, Fredson Bowers, Ignas K. Skrupskelis (1978). “Essays in Philosophy”, p.16, Harvard University Press

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• No living person is sunk so low as not to be imitated by somebody.

  William James

  Failure, Lows, Persons

  William James, Robert D Richardson (2010). “The Heart of William James”, p.139, Harvard University Press

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• Our beliefs are really rules for action.

  William James

  Belief, Action

  William James, John Dewey, John M. Capps, Donald Capps (2005). “James and Dewey on Belief and Experience”, p.134, University of Illinois Press

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• Compared to what we ought to be, we are only half awake. We are making use of only a small part of our physical and mental resources. Stating the thing broadly, the human individual thus lives far within his limits. He possesses power of various sorts which he habitually fails to use.

  William James

  Use, Half, Limits

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• There are two lives, the natural and the spiritual, and we must lose the one before we can participate in the other.

  William James

  Spiritual, Two, Natural

  William James (2015). “The Varieties of Religious Experience”, p.161, Booklassic

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• To change ones life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly.

  William James

  Life, Change, Philosophical

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• If it works, it's true.

  William James

  Working It, Ifs

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• Let anyone try, I will not say to arrest, but to notice or to attend to, the present moment of time. One of the most baffling experiences occurs. Where is it, this present? It has melted in our grasp, fled ere we could touch it, gone in the instant of becoming.

  William James

  Trying, Gone, Becoming

  William James (2012). “Psychology: The Briefer Course”, p.147, Courier Corporation

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• Most of us can learn to live in perfect comfort on higher levels of power. Everyone knows that on any given day there are energies slumbering in him which the incitements of that day do not call forth. Compared with what we ought to be, we are only half awake. It is evident that our organism has stored-up reserves of energy that are ordinarily not called upon - deeper and deeper strata of explosible material, ready for use by anyone who probes so deep. The human individual usually lives far within his limits.

  William James

  Life, Power, Perfect

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• There are no differences but differences of degree between different degrees of difference and no difference.

  William James

  Differences, Degrees, Different

  William James (1956). “The Will to Believe: And Other Essays in Popular Philosophy, and Human Immortality”, p.297, Courier Corporation

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