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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.

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  Spiritual, Two, Natural

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

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• We have grown literally afraid to be poor. We despise anyone who elects to be poor in order to simplify and save his inner life. If he does not join the general scramble and pant with the money-making street, we deem him spiritless and lacking in ambition

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  Ambition, Order, Political

  William James (2013). “The Varieties of Religious Experience”, p.368, Courier Corporation

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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.

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  Inspirational Life, Believe, Use

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• Habit is the great flywheel of society.

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  Habit

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• There are 3 rules to follow if you want to change; (1) Start immediately, (2) Do it flamboyantly, (3) No exceptions.

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  Want, Exception, Ifs

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

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  Lazy, Weakness, Proud

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• Effort is the one strictly undervalued and original contribution we make to this world.

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  Effort, World, Contribution

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• The deepest human need is the need to be appreciated.

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  Needs, Appreciated, Humans

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• Belief creates the actual fact.

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  Inspirational, Uplifting, Philosophical

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• We do not sing because we are happy, we are happy because we sing.

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  Inspirational, Happiness

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• Men habitually use only a small part of the power which they actually possess.

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  Men, Use, Small Parts

  William James (1918). “Selected Papers on Philosophy”

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• We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.

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  Truth, Opposites, Would Be

  William James (2007). “The Will to Believe and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy”, p.217, Cosimo, Inc.

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• With no attempt there can be no failure; with no failure no humiliation.

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  Humiliation, No Failure

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

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• Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being. They make very small use of their possible consciousness, and of their soul's resources in general, much like a man who, out of his whole bodily organism, should get into a habit of using and moving only his little finger.

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  Inspirational, Life, Moving

  Letter toWincenty Lutoslawski, 6 May 1906

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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.

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  Use, Half, Limits

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• One of the greatest discoveries of our time is that a man can alter the state of their life by altering the state of their mind.

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  Men, Discovery, Mind

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• There can be no final truth in ethics any more than in physics, until the last man has had his experience and said his say.

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  Men, Finals, Lasts

  William James (2010). “The Will to Believe: And Other Essays in Popular Philosophy”, p.208, The Floating Press

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• How pleasant is the day when we give up striving to be young-or slender.

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  Giving Up, Age, Aging

  William James (2012). “The Principles of Psychology”, p.311, Courier Corporation

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• Philosophy lives in words, but truth and fact well up into our lives in ways that exceed verbal formulation.

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  Philosophy, Way, Facts

  William James (2015). “The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature”, p.149, Xist Publishing

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• The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one.

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  Education, Philosophical, Carpe Diem

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• There is a voice inside which speaks and says, "This is the real me!"

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  Real, Voice, Self Love

  Letter to Alice Gibbons James, 1878

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• A thing is important if anyone think it important.

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  Thinking, Important, Ifs

  William James (2012). “The Principles of Psychology”, p.712, Courier Corporation

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• To some of us the thought of God is like a sort of quiet music playing in the background of the mind.

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  Philosophy, Mind, Quiet

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• The exercise of prayer, in those who habitually exert it, must be regarded by us doctors as the most adequate and normal of all the pacifiers of the mind and calmers of the nerves.

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  Prayer, Exercise, Doctors

  William James, Frederick Burkhardt, Fredson Bowers, Ignas K. Skrupskelis (1982). “Essays in Religion and Morality”, p.160, Harvard University Press

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• Life is one long struggle between conclusions based on abstract ways of conceiving cases, and opposite conclusions prompted by our instinctive perception of them.

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  Respect, Struggle, Adversity

  William James (2012). “The Principles of Psychology”, p.674, Courier Corporation

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