Our beliefs are really rules for action.
WILLIAM JAMESAll natural goods perish. Riches take wings; fame is a breath; love is a cheat; youth and health and pleasure vanish.
More William James Quotes
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There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man’s lack of faith in his true Self.
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If you want to change your life, do it flamboyantly and start immediately.
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Impulse without reason is enough, and reason without impulse is a poor makeshift.
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All natural goods perish. Riches take wings; fame is a breath; love is a cheat; youth and health and pleasure vanish.
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When once a decision is reached and execution is the order of the day, dismiss absolutely all responsibility and care about the outcome.
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To know an object is to lead to it through a context which the world provides
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The deepest hunger in human beings is the desire to be appreciated.
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Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.
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You must bring out of each word its practical cash-value, set it at work within the stream of your experience.
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The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
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Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.
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Procrastination is attitude’s natural assassin. There’s nothing so fatiguing as an uncompleted task
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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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There can be no difference anywhere that does not make a difference somewhere.
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Men’s activities are occupied into ways — in grappling with external circumstances and in striving to set things at one in their own topsy-turvy mind.
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