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Quote by William James
Every time a resolve or fine glow of feeling evaporates without be

Every time a resolve or fine glow of feeling evaporates without bearing fruit, it is worse than a chance lost; it works to hinder future emotions from taking the normal path of discharge. – William James

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It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome. – William James

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Attitude
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William James
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If you believe that feeling bad or worrying long enough will change a past or future event, then you are residing on another planet with a different reality system. – William James

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Change
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Emotions
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Society is infested by persons who, seeing that the sentiments please, counterfeit the expression of them. These we call sentimentalists–talkers who mistake the description for the thing, saying for having. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Emotions

You cant expect to prevent negative feelings altogether. And you cant expect to experience positive feelings all the time. The Law of Emotional Choice directs us to acknowledge our feelings but also to refuse to get stuck in the negative ones. – Greg Anderson

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Emotions

Our emotions are only incidents in the effort to keep day and night together. – TS (Thomas Stearns) Eliot

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Emotions

Perhaps apathy is a wave of emotions too afraid to burst out of the darkness into the bright light of day. – Terri Guillemets

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Emotions

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Reality is an illusion caused by a lack of good beer. – Author Unknown

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A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety. – Aesop, Fables

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Only in mens imagination does every truth find an effective and undeniable existence. Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life. – Joseph Conrad

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Art

I trust it will not be giving away professional secrets to say that many readers would be surprised, perhaps shocked, at the questions which some newspaper editors will put to a defenseless woman under the guise of flattery. – Kate Chopin

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Trust