Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
WILLIAM JAMESWe want all our friends to tell us our bad qualities; it is only the particular ass that does so whom we can’t tolerate.
More William James Quotes
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In all primary school work the principle of multiple impressions is well recognized.
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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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The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly.
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The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.
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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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You may not get everything you dream about, but you will never get anything you don’t dream about.
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The greatest weapon we have to combat stress is the ability to choose our thoughts.
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There can be no difference anywhere that does not make a difference somewhere.
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The question of free will is insoluble on strictly psychological grounds.
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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.
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The impulse to take life strivingly is indestructible in the race.
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Mankind’s common instinct for reality has always held the world to be essentially a theatre for heroism.
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The most immutable barrier in nature is between one man’s thoughts and another’s.
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Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.
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There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.
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