To improve the golden moment of opportunity, and catch the good that is within our reach, is the great art of life.
WILLIAM JAMESLives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or being.
More William James Quotes
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Man can change his life simply by changing his attitude.
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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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Our faith is faith in someone else’s faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.
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Pretend what we may, the whole man within us is at work when we form our philosophical opinions.
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Mankind’s common instinct for reality has always held the world to be essentially a theatre for heroism.
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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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An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.
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That which is most personal, is most interesting.
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The mind, in short, works on the data it receives very much as the sculptor works on his block of stone.
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Man alone of all the creatures of earth can change his own pattern. Man alone is the architect of his own destiny.
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When thoughts do not neutralize an undesirable emotion, action will.
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We can change our circumstances by a mere change of our attitude.
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Circumstance does not make me, it reveals me.
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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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Deepest principle of human nature is to be appreciated.
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Religion is a monumental chapter in the history of human egotism.
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The question of free will is insoluble on strictly psychological grounds.
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In the matter of belief, we are all extreme conservatives.
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The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly.
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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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With mere good intentions hell is proverbially paved.
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Most men have a good memory for facts connected with their own pursuits.
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There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.
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Man can alter his life by altering his thinking.
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Lives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or being.
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Religious awe is the same organic thrill which we feel in a forest at twilight, or in a mountain gorge.
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