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The greatest discovery of any generation is that a human can alter his life by altering his attitude.
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To change one's life: 1. Start immediately.
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William James |
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Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive, along with which comes the inner voice which says, 'This is the real me,' and when you have found that attitude, follow it.
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William James |
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Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.
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William James |
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Good-humor is a philosophic state of mind; it seems to say to Nature that we take her no more seriously than she takes us. I maintain that one should always talk of philosophy with a smile.
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William James |
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Individuality outruns all classification, yet we insist on classifying every one we meet under some general head.
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William James |
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Freedom is only necessity understood.
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William James |
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Wherever you are it is your own friends who make your world.
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William James |
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Tell him to live by yes and no -- yes to everything good, no to everything bad.
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William James |
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So our self-feeling in this world depends entirely on what we back ourselves to be and do.
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William James |
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The impulse to take life strivingly is indestructible in the race.
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William James |
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My thinking is first and last and always for the sake of my doing.
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William James |
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The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
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William James |
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A purely disembodied human emotion is a nonentity.
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William James |
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A thing is important if anyone think it important.
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William James |
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As a rule we disbelieve all the facts and theories for which we have no use.
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William James |
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No concrete test of what is really true has ever been agreed upon.
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William James |
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Everything which is demanded is by that fact a good.
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William James |
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Instinct leads, intelligence does but follow.
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William James |
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A difference which makes no difference is no difference at all.
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William James |
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Religion...is a man's total reaction upon life.
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William James |
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A paradise of inward tranquility seems to be faith's usual result.
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William James |
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There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood by those who hear it.
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William James |
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History is a bath of blood.
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William James |
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The trail of the human serpent is thus over everything.
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William James |
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I myself believe that the evidence for God lies primarily in inner personal experiences.
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William James |
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Democracy is still upon its trial. The civic genius of our people is its only bulwark.
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William James |
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I wished, by treating Psychology like a natural science, to help her to become one.
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William James |
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Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.
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William James |
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A specialist is a man who knows more and more about less and less.
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William James Mayo |