We can change our circumstances by a mere change of our attitude.
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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If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.
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To consider hypotheses is surely always better than to dogmatize ins blaue hinein
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If you want to change your life, do it flamboyantly and start immediately.
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The power to move the world is in the subconcious mind
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Touch is the alpha and omega of affection.
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The deepest longing in the human breast is the desire for appreciation.
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He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed.
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You must bring out of each word its practical cash-value, set it at work within the stream of your experience.
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Religious awe is the same organic thrill which we feel in a forest at twilight, or in a mountain gorge.
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The minute a man ceases to grow, no matter what his years, that minute he begins to be old.
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It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.
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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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Once you accept an idea, it’s an idea whose time has come.
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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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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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