Experience, as we know, has a way of boiling over, and making us correct our present formulas.
WILLIAM JAMESIf you want to change your life, do it flamboyantly and start immediately.
More William James Quotes
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Habit is a second nature, or rather, it is ‘ten times nature’.
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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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The discovery of the power of our thoughts will prove to be the most important discovery of our time
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For morality life is a war, and the service of the highest is a sort of cosmic patriotism which also calls for volunteers.
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Genius is the capacity for seeing relationships where lesser men see none.
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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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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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Truth happens to an idea
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Anything you may hold firmly in your imagination can be yours.
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When you have broken the reality into concepts you never can reconstruct it in its wholeness.
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Impulse without reason is enough, and reason without impulse is a poor makeshift.
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As long as there are postmen, life will have zest.
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Man can change his life simply by changing his attitude.
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… the intellect, everywhere invasive, shows everywhere its shallowing effect.
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Objective evidence and certitude are doubtless very fine ideals to play with, but where on this moonlit and dream-visited planet are they found?
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