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.
WILLIAM JAMESThe most immutable barrier in nature is between one man’s thoughts and another’s.
More William James Quotes
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Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.
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Give your dreams all you’ve got, and you’ll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you.
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To change ones life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly.
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Both thought and feeling are determinants of conduct, and the same conduct may be determined either by feeling or by thought.
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On pragmatistic principles, if the hypothesis of God works satisfactorily in the widest sense of the word, it is true.
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Success plus Self-esteem equals Pretensions.
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What would be better for us to believe!’ This sounds very like a definition of truth
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Tension is a habit. Relaxing is a habit. Bad habits can be broken, good habits formed.
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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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Most men have a good memory for facts connected with their own pursuits.
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The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.
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The union of the mathematician with the poet, fervor with measure, passion with correctness, this surely is the ideal.
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Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
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The true’to put it very briefly, is only the expedient in the way of our thinking, just as ‘the right’ is only the expedient in the way of our behaving.
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Just for today I will exercise my soul in three ways: I will do somebody a good turn and not get found out. I will do at least two things I don’t want to do
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History is a bath of blood.
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It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.
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The God of many men is little more than their court of appeal against the damnatory judgment passed on their failures by the opinion of the world.
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We hear the words we have spoken, feel our own blow as we give it, or read in the bystander’s eyes the success or failure of our conduct.
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Fear of life in one form or another is the great thing to exorcise.
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When you have broken the reality into concepts you never can reconstruct it in its wholeness.
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To consider hypotheses is surely always better than to dogmatize ins blaue hinein
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Our beliefs and our attention are the same fact.
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So to feel brave, act as if we were brave, use all our will to that end…and a courage-fit will very likely replace the fit of fear.
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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 drunken consciousness is one bit of the mystic consciousness, and our total opinion of it must find its place in our opinion of that larger whole.
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