So to feel brave, act as if we were brave, use all our will to that end…and a courage-fit will very likely replace the fit of fear.
WILLIAM JAMESIs life worth living? It all depends on the liver.
More William James Quotes
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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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Truth, as any dictionary will tell you, is a property of certain of our ideas. It means their agreement, as falsity means their disagreement, with reality.
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Where is it, this present? It has melted in our grasp, fled ere we could touch it, gone in the instant of becoming.
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When you have broken the reality into concepts you never can reconstruct it in its wholeness.
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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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Our beliefs are really rules for action.
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The deepest human need is the need to be appreciated.
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Everything which is demanded is by that fact a good.
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All religions begin with the cry Help.
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The lunatic’s visions of horror are all drawn from the material of daily fact.
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Once you accept an idea, it’s an idea whose time has come.
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Truth happens to an idea
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If you want to change your life, do it flamboyantly and start immediately.
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With mere good intentions hell is proverbially paved.
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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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To change ones life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly.
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The total possible consciousness may be split into parts which co-exist but mutually ignore each other.
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A man with no philosophy in him is the most inauspicious and unprofitable of all possible social mates.
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There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood bu those who hear it.
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To some of us the thought of God is like a sort of quiet music playing in the background of the mind.
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If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.
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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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Earnestness means willingness to live with energy, though energy bring pain.
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At bottom, the whole concern of religion is with the manner of our acceptance of the universe.
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There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.
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Both thought and feeling are determinants of conduct, and the same conduct may be determined either by feeling or by thought.
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