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

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William James
Age: 68 †
Born: 1842
Born: January 11
Died: 1910
Died: August 26
Philosopher
Physician
Psychologist
University Teacher
W. James
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All the daily routine of life, our dressing and undressing, the coming and going from our work or carrying through of its various operations, is utterly without mental reference to pleasure and pain, except under rarely realized conditions.
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Knowledge about life is one thing effective occupation of a place in life, with its dynamic currents passing through your being, is another.
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Lets take full advantage of this discovery
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Every sort of energy and endurance, of courage and capacity for handling life's evils, is set free in those who have religious faith.
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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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Since you make evil or good by your own thoughts, it is your ruling of your thoughts which proves to be your principal concern.
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At bottom, the whole concern of religion is with the manner of our acceptance of the universe.
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Lay plans as if we were to be immortal.
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No reception without reaction, no impression without correlative expression, -this is the great maxim which the teacher ought never to forget.
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Faith is synonymous with working hypothesis.
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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.
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The world is all the richer for having a devil in it, so long as we keep our foot upon his neck.
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All that we need explicitly to note is that, the more the passive attention is relied on, by keeping the material interesting and the less the kind of attention requiring effort is appealed to the more smoothly and pleasantly the classroom work goes on.
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Man lives by habits indeed, but what he lives for is thrill and excitements. ... From time immemorial war has been ... the supremely thrilling excitement.
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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.
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We are mere bundles of habits.
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So our self-feeling in this world depends entirely on what we back ourselves to be and do.
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I am, myself, a very poor visualizer and find that I can seldom call to mind even a single letter of the alphabet in purely retinal terms. I must trace the letter by running my mental eye over its contour in order that the image of it shall leave any distinctness at all.
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'What would be better for us to believe!' This sounds very like a definition of truth
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True ideas are those that we can assimilate, validate, corroborate, and verify. False ideas are those that we cannot
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