If you give appreciation to people, you win their goodwill. But more important than that, practicing this philosophy has made a different person of me.
WILLIAM JAMESOnce you accept an idea, it’s an idea whose time has come.
More William James Quotes
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Fear of life in one form or another is the great thing to exorcise.
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The most immutable barrier in nature is between one man’s thoughts and another’s.
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Procrastination is attitude’s natural assassin. There’s nothing so fatiguing as an uncompleted task
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Success plus Self-esteem equals Pretensions.
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The ultimate test of what a truth means is the conduct it dictates or inspires.
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I myself believe that the evidence for God lies primarily in inner personal experiences.
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There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood bu those who hear it.
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The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.
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Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.
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The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.
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No living person is sunk so low as not to be imitated by somebody.
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Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being.
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Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive.
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Pure experience’ is the name I gave to the immediate flux of life which furnishes the material to our later reflection with its conceptual categories.
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Modern man . . . has not ceased to be credulous . . . the need to believe haunts him.
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