Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.
WILLIAM JAMESThere is but one cause of human failure. And that is man’s lack of faith in his true Self.
More William James Quotes
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Our beliefs are really rules for action.
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Let everything you do be done as if it makes a difference.
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If you give appreciation to people, you win their goodwill. But more important than that, practicing this philosophy has made a different person of me.
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Man alone of all the creatures of earth can change his own pattern. Man alone is the architect of his own destiny.
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Most unhappiness is caused because people listen to themselves… instead of talking to themselves.
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How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.
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The ‘I think’ which Kant said must be able to accompany all my objects, is the ‘I breathe’ which actually does accompany them.
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Experience, as we know, has a way of boiling over, and making us correct our present formulas.
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Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.
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Our view of the world is truly shaped by what we decide to hear.
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There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.
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We want all our friends to tell us our bad qualities; it is only the particular ass that does so whom we can’t tolerate.
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Our beliefs and our attention are the same fact.
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All religions begin with the cry Help.
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Man can change his life simply by changing his attitude.
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