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Earnestness means willingness to live with energy, though energy bring pain.

Earnestness means willingness to live with energy, though energy bring pain.

William James
Pain, Mean, Energy
Dr. William James (2013). “The William James Reader”, p.533, Simon and Schuster

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.

William James
Happiness, Pain, Routine
William James (1918). “The Principles of Psychology, Vol. 2”, p.553, Courier Corporation

A little cooling down of animal excitability and instinct, a little loss of animal toughness, a little irritable weakness and descent of the pain-threshold, will bring the worm at the core of all our usual springs of delight into full view, and turn us into melancholy metaphysicians.

William James
Pain, Spring, Loss
William James (2013). “The Varieties of Religious Experience”, p.140, Courier Corporation

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