To improve the golden moment of opportunity, and catch the good that is within our reach, is the great art of life.
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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One of the greatest discoveries of our time is that a man can alter the state of their life by altering the state of their mind.
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… the intellect, everywhere invasive, shows everywhere its shallowing effect.
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Procrastination is attitude’s natural assassin. There’s nothing so fatiguing as an uncompleted task
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Man can alter his life by altering his thinking.
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New habits can be launched.
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When you have broken the reality into concepts you never can reconstruct it in its wholeness.
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So it is with children who learn to read fluently and well: They begin to take flight into whole new worlds as effortlessly as young birds take to the sky.
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Most unhappiness is caused because people listen to themselves… instead of talking to themselves.
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If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.
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The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
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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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Language is the most imperfect and expensive means yet discovered for communicating thought.
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A new idea is first condemned as ridiculous and then dismissed as trivial, until finally, it becomes what everybody knows.
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It is art that makes life, and I know of no substitute whatsoever for the force and beauty of its process.
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What would be better for us to believe!’ This sounds very like a definition of truth
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