The most immutable barrier in nature is between one man’s thoughts and another’s.
WILLIAM JAMESIf you give appreciation to people, you win their goodwill. But more important than that, practicing this philosophy has made a different person of me.
More William James Quotes
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Our faith is faith in someone else’s faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.
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The power to move the world is in the subconcious mind
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All natural goods perish. Riches take wings; fame is a breath; love is a cheat; youth and health and pleasure vanish.
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Modern man . . . has not ceased to be credulous . . . the need to believe haunts him.
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Touch is the alpha and omega of affection.
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Most men have a good memory for facts connected with their own pursuits.
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Where quality is the thing sought after, the thing of supreme quality is cheap, whatever the price one has to pay for it.
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A man with no philosophy in him is the most inauspicious and unprofitable of all possible social mates.
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If merely ‘feeling good’ could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.
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Earnestness means willingness to live with energy, though energy bring pain.
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The world is all the richer for having a devil in it, so long as we keep our foot upon his neck.
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There can be no final truth in ethics any more than in physics, until the last man has had his experience and said his say.
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The most peculiar social self which one is apt to have is in the mind of the person one is in love with.
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There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man’s lack of faith in his true Self.
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Habit is a second nature, or rather, it is ‘ten times nature’.
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