Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.
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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Every individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony.
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New habits can be launched.
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The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
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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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The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
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The instant field of the present is at all times what I call the ‘pure’ experience. It is only virtually or potentially either object or subject as yet.
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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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To change ones life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly.
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Our beliefs are really rules for action.
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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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Footnotes — little dogs yapping at the heels of the text
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Faith is synonymous with working hypothesis.
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Genius… means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.
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Effort is the one strictly undervalued and original contribution we make to this world.
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But facts are facts, and if we only get enough of them theyare sure to combine.
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