A new idea is first condemned as ridiculous and then dismissed as trivial, until finally, it becomes what everybody knows.
WILLIAM JAMESThe greatest weapon we have to combat stress is the ability to choose our thoughts.
More William James Quotes
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The power to move the world is in the subconcious mind
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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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Faith is synonymous with working hypothesis.
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We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.
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If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.
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Truth happens to an idea
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The impulse to take life strivingly is indestructible in the race.
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Truth for us is simply a collective name for verification processes
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The general law is that no mental modification ever occurs which is not accompanied or followed by a bodily change.
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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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Just for today I will exercise my soul in three ways: I will do somebody a good turn and not get found out. I will do at least two things I don’t want to do
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If you want to change your life, do it flamboyantly and start immediately.
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A sense of humor is just common sense dancing.
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Circumstance does not make me, it reveals me.
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We are stereotyped creatures, imitators and copiers of our past selves.
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We forget that every good that is worth possessing must be paid for in strokes of daily effort.
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I am well aware how odd it must seem to some of you to hear me say that an idea is true so long as to believe it is profitable to our lives
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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 can be no final truth in ethics any more than in physics, until the last man has had his experience and said his say.
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Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive.
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Organization and method mean much, but contagious human characters mean more in a university.
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The strenuous life tastes better
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Modern man . . . has not ceased to be credulous . . . the need to believe haunts him.
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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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The most immutable barrier in nature is between one man’s thoughts and another’s.
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Truth is something that happens to an idea.
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