Our beliefs are really rules for action.
WILLIAM JAMESWhere quality is the thing sought after, the thing of supreme quality is cheap, whatever the price one has to pay for it.
More William James Quotes
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If you want to change your life, do it flamboyantly and start immediately.
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At bottom, the whole concern of religion is with the manner of our acceptance of the universe.
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We are proud of a human nature that could be so passionately extreme, but we shrink from advising others to follow the example.
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Most men have a good memory for facts connected with their own pursuits.
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The discovery of the power of our thoughts will prove to be the most important discovery of our time
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With no attempt there can be no failure; with no failure no humiliation.
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The greatest weapon we have to combat stress is the ability to choose our thoughts.
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Fear of life in one form or another is the great thing to exorcise.
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All religions begin with the cry Help.
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[Religion is] the attempt to be in harmony with an unseen order of things.
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Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.
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We must be careful not to confuse data with the abstractions we use to analyse them.
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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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Real culture lives by sympathies and admirations, not by dislikes and disdains; under all misleading wrappings it pounces unerringly upon the human core.
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It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.
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