Religion . . . shall mean for us the feelings, acts and experiences of individual men in their solitude.
WILLIAM JAMESIt is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.
More William James Quotes
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Habit is a second nature, or rather, it is ‘ten times nature’.
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The greatest weapon we have to combat stress is the ability to choose our thoughts.
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How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.
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The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.
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New habits can be launched.
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The impulse to take life strivingly is indestructible in the race.
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Genius is the capacity for seeing relationships where lesser men see none.
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An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.
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Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system
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All natural happiness thus seems infected with a contradiction. The breath of the sepulchre surrounds it.
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A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.
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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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Effort is the one strictly undervalued and original contribution we make to this world.
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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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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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