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William James
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The moral flabbiness born of the exclusive worhip of the bitch-goddess, SUCCESS. That-- with the squalid cash interpretation put on the word success-- is our national disease. |
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The peace of rationality may be sought through ecstasy when logic fails. |
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There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision." |
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There is, accordingly, no better known or more generally useful precept in the moral training of youth, or in one's personal self-discipline, than that which bids us pay primary attention to what we do and express, and not to care too much for what we feel. |
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Thus the sovereign voluntary path to cheerfulness, if our spontaneous cheerfulness be lost, is to sit up cheerfully, to look round cheerfully, and to act and speak as if cheerfulness were already there. If such conduct does not make you soon feel cheerful, nothing else on that occasion can. |
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To wrestle with a bad feeling only pins our attention on it, and keeps it still fastened in the mind; whereas, if we act as if from some better feeling, the old bad feeling soon folds its tent like an Arab and silently steals away. |
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Varieties of Religious Experience |
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When you have to make a choice and don't make it, that in itself is a choice. |
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