Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
WILLIAM JAMESThe ‘I think’ which Kant said must be able to accompany all my objects, is the ‘I breathe’ which actually does accompany them.
More William James Quotes
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To know an object is to lead to it through a context which the world provides
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To consider hypotheses is surely always better than to dogmatize ins blaue hinein
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Individuality is founded in feeling
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New habits can be launched.
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The lunatic’s visions of horror are all drawn from the material of daily fact.
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Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.
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There can be no difference anywhere that does not make a difference somewhere.
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The great thing, then, in all education, is to make our nervous system our ally instead of our enemy.
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All of our life is but a mass of small habits – practical, emotional, intellectual and spiritual – that bear us irresistibly toward our destiny.
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In the matter of belief, we are all extreme conservatives.
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We forget that every good that is worth possessing must be paid for in strokes of daily effort.
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Focus on increasing service. Becoming great where you are. Pile in the wood. The heat will follow.
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We must be careful not to confuse data with the abstractions we use to analyse them.
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Procrastination is attitude’s natural assassin. There’s nothing so fatiguing as an uncompleted task
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Science, like life, feeds on its own decay. New facts burst old rules; then newly divined conceptions bind old and new together into a reconciling law.
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