So our self-feeling in this world depends entirely on what we back ourselves to be and do.
WILLIAM JAMESMan alone of all the creatures of earth can change his own pattern. Man alone is the architect of his own destiny.
More William James Quotes
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The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one.
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Time itself comes in drops.
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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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Our intelligence cannot wall itself up alive, like a pupa in a chrysalis. It must at any cost keep on speaking terms with the universe that engendered it.
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What would be better for us to believe!’ This sounds very like a definition of truth
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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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Habit is thus the enormous fly-wheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. It alone is what keeps us all within the bounds of ordinance.
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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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Fear of life in one form or another is the great thing to exorcise.
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Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive.
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The greatest weapon we have to combat stress is the ability to choose our thoughts.
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The first lecture in psychology that I ever heard was the first I ever gave.
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If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.
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A new opinion counts as true just in proportion as it gratifies the individual’s desire to assimilate the novel in his experience to his beliefs in stock
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A new position of responsibility will usually show a man to be a far stronger creature than was supposed.
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