Let everything you do be done as if it makes a difference.
WILLIAM JAMESCircumstance does not make me, it reveals me.
More William James Quotes
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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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A new position of responsibility will usually show a man to be a far stronger creature than was supposed.
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The true’to put it very briefly, is only the expedient in the way of our thinking, just as ‘the right’ is only the expedient in the way of our behaving.
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There can be no existence of evil as a force to the healthy-minded individual.
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Each of us is in fact what he is almost exclusively by virtue of his imitative-ness.
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Asceticism may be a mere expression of organic hardihood, disgusted with too much ease.
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Tension is a habit. Relaxing is a habit. Bad habits can be broken, good habits formed.
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Philosophy lives in words, but truth and fact well up into our lives in ways that exceed verbal formulation.
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Real culture lives by sympathies and admirations, not by dislikes and disdains; under all misleading wrappings it pounces unerringly upon the human core.
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The ultimate test of what a truth means is the conduct it dictates or inspires.
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We forget that every good that is worth possessing must be paid for in strokes of daily effort.
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All of our life is but a mass of small habits – practical, emotional, intellectual and spiritual – that bear us irresistibly toward our destiny.
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We must be careful not to confuse data with the abstractions we use to analyse them.
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Focus on increasing service. Becoming great where you are. Pile in the wood. The heat will follow.
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Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.
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