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You do not sing because you're happy, you're happy because you sing.

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William James
Age: 68 †
Born: 1842
Born: January 11
Died: 1910
Died: August 26
Philosopher
Physician
Psychologist
University Teacher
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Instinct leads, logic does but follow.
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Language is the most imperfect and expensive means yet discovered for communicating thought.
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If any one phrase could gather its (religion's) universal message, that phrase would be, - All is not vanity in this Universe, whatever the appearances may suggest.
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Hogamus, higamous Man is polygamous Higamus, hogamous Woman monogamous.
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I have often thought the best way to define a man's character would be to seek out the particular mental or moral attitude in which, when it comes upon him, he felt himself most deeply and intensely active and alive. At such moments there is a voice inside which speaks and says: This is the real me!.
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Pretend what we may, the whole man within us is at work when we form our philosophical opinions.
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Each of us is in fact what he is almost exclusively by virtue of his imitative-ness.
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Considering the inner fitness of things, one would rather think that the very first act of a will endowed with freedom should be to sustain the belief in the freedom itself.
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The function of ignoring, of inattention, is as vital a factor in mental progress as the function of attention itself.
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The instinct of ownership is fundamental in man's nature.
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If you give appreciation to people, you win their goodwill. But more important than that, practicing this philosophy has made a different person of me.
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There is an organic affinity between joyousness and tenderness, and their companionship in the saintly life need in no way occasion surprise.
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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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We all have a lifelong habit of inferiority to our full self...
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Man can change his life simply by changing his attitude.
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Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive.
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All religions begin with the cry Help.
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Results should not be too voluntarily aimed at or too busily thought of. They are sure to float up of their own accord from a long enough daily work at a given matter.
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