Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
WILLIAM JAMESA chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.
More William James Quotes
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The question of free will is insoluble on strictly psychological grounds.
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… the intellect, everywhere invasive, shows everywhere its shallowing effect.
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[T]here is very little difference between one person and another, but what little difference ther eis, is very important.
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The strenuous life tastes better
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With no attempt there can be no failure; with no failure no humiliation.
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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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He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed.
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All religions begin with the cry Help.
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True to her inveterate habit, rationalism reverts to ‘principles,’ and thinks that when an abstraction once is named, we own an oracular solution.
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If you want to change your life, do it flamboyantly and start immediately.
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Organization and method mean much, but contagious human characters mean more in a university.
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Man, whatever else he may be, is primarily a practical being, whose mind is given him to aid in adapting him to this world’s life
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Since you make evil or good by your own thoughts, it is your ruling of your thoughts which proves to be your principal concern.
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Circumstance does not make me, it reveals me.
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A man of sense is never discouraged by difficulties; he redoubles his industry and his diligence, he perseveres and infallibly prevails at last.
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