Men habitually use only a small part of the power which they actually possess.
WILLIAM JAMESThe minute a man ceases to grow, no matter what his years, that minute he begins to be old.
More William James Quotes
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I myself believe that the evidence for God lies primarily in inner personal experiences.
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Anything you may hold firmly in your imagination can be yours.
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The strenuous life tastes better
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The great thing, then, in all education, is to make our nervous system our ally instead of our enemy.
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We may be in the Universe as dogs and cats are in our libraries, seeing the books and hearing the conversation, but having no inkling of the meaning of it all.
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We are stereotyped creatures, imitators and copiers of our past selves.
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Time itself comes in drops.
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Our beliefs and our attention are the same fact.
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Truth is something that happens to an idea.
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There is but one unconditional commandment … to bring about the very largest total universe of good which we can see.
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All natural happiness thus seems infected with a contradiction. The breath of the sepulchre surrounds it.
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Fear of life in one form or another is the great thing to exorcise.
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We must be careful not to confuse data with the abstractions we use to analyse them.
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The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.
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To know an object is to lead to it through a context which the world provides
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Everything which is demanded is by that fact a good.
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Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.
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We with our lives are like islands in the sea, or like trees in the forest… But the trees also commingle their roots in the darkness underground.
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As long as there are postmen, life will have zest.
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Facts’ are the bounds of human knowledge, set for it, not by it.
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The discovery of the power of our thoughts will prove to be the most important discovery of our time
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You can alter your life by altering the state of your mind.
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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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… the intellect, everywhere invasive, shows everywhere its shallowing effect.
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Deepest principle of human nature is to be appreciated.
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That which is most personal, is most interesting.
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