To improve the golden moment of opportunity, and catch the good that is within our reach, is the great art of life.
WILLIAM JAMESI don’t sing because I’m happy; I’m happy because I sing.
More William James Quotes
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We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.
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Science, like life, feeds on its own decay. New facts burst old rules; then newly divined conceptions bind old and new together into a reconciling law.
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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 impulse to take life strivingly is indestructible in the race.
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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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Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
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The question of free will is insoluble on strictly psychological grounds.
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A man with no philosophy in him is the most inauspicious and unprofitable of all possible social mates.
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The sovereign cure for worry is prayer.
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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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We are stereotyped creatures, imitators and copiers of our past selves.
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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 with our lives are like islands in the sea, or like trees in the forest… But the trees also commingle their roots in the darkness underground.
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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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True to her inveterate habit, rationalism reverts to ‘principles,’ and thinks that when an abstraction once is named, we own an oracular solution.
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