Our beliefs and our attention are the same fact.
WILLIAM JAMESYou may not get everything you dream about, but you will never get anything you don’t dream about.
More William James Quotes
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Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system
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Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
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I myself believe that the evidence for God lies primarily in inner personal experiences.
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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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With mere good intentions hell is proverbially paved.
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… the intellect, everywhere invasive, shows everywhere its shallowing effect.
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To know an object is to lead to it through a context which the world provides
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Habit is a second nature, or rather, it is ‘ten times nature’.
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Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day.
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Circumstance does not make me, it reveals me.
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Facts’ are the bounds of human knowledge, set for it, not by it.
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It is art that makes life, and I know of no substitute whatsoever for the force and beauty of its process.
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The power to move the world is in the subconcious mind
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It is very important that teachers should realize the importance of habit.
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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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