Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system
WILLIAM JAMESBelieve that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
More William James Quotes
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The power to move the world is in the subconcious mind
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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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All of our life is but a mass of small habits – practical, emotional, intellectual and spiritual – that bear us irresistibly toward our destiny.
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But facts are facts, and if we only get enough of them theyare sure to combine.
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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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I am well aware how odd it must seem to some of you to hear me say that an idea is true so long as to believe it is profitable to our lives
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Men’s activities are occupied into ways — in grappling with external circumstances and in striving to set things at one in their own topsy-turvy mind.
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Habit is thus the enormous fly-wheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. It alone is what keeps us all within the bounds of ordinance.
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The greatest weapon we have to combat stress is the ability to choose our thoughts.
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In the matter of belief, we are all extreme conservatives.
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History is a bath of blood.
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Circumstance does not make me, it reveals me.
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Man, biologically considered … is simply the most formidable of all beasts of prey, and, indeed, the only one that preys systematically on its own kind.
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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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We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.
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