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The greatest weapon we have to combat stress is the ability to choose our thoughts.

William James

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William James
Age: 68 †
Born: 1842
Born: January 11
Died: 1910
Died: August 26
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All the qualities of a man acquire dignity when he knows that the service of the collectivity that owns him needs them. If proud of the collectivity, his own pride rises in proportion. No collectivity is like an army for nourishing such pride.
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No one sees further into a generalization than his own knowledge of detail extends.
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Pretend what we may, the whole man within us is at work when we form our philosophical opinions. Intellect, will, taste, and passion co-operate just as they do in practical affairs and lucky it is if the passion be not something as petty as a love of personal conquest over the philosopher across the way.
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Compared with what we ought to be, we are only half awake. Our fires are damped, our drafts are checked. We are making use of only a small part of our possible mental and physical resources.
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How pleasant is the day when we give up striving to be young-or slender.
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The first thing to learn in intercourse with others is non-interference with their own particular ways of being happy, provided those ways do not assume to interfere by violence with ours.
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For the moment, what we attend to is reality.
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The thinker philosophizes as the lover loves. Even were the consequences not only useless but harmful, he must obey his impulse.
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Need and struggle are what excite and inspire us our hour of triumph is what brings the void.
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Impulse without reason is enough, and reason without impulse is a poor makeshift.
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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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With no attempt there can be no failure with no failure no humiliation.
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