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We can change our circumstances by a mere change of our attitude.

William James

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.
WILLIAM JAMES

Finals Lasts Men
You must bring out of each word its practical cash-value, set it at work within the stream of your experience.
WILLIAM JAMES

Cash Experience Stream
In the matter of belief, we are all extreme conservatives.
WILLIAM JAMES

Belief Extremes Matter
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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Health Love Wings
Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.
WILLIAM JAMES

Believe Faith Philosophical
Religion . . . shall mean for us the feelings, acts and experiences of individual men in their solitude.
WILLIAM JAMES

Mean Men Solitude
No bell in us tolls to let us know for certain when truth is in our grasp.
WILLIAM JAMES

Bells Tolls Truth
The general law is that no mental modification ever occurs which is not accompanied or followed by a bodily change.
WILLIAM JAMES

Law Medicine Philosophy
On pragmatistic principles, if the hypothesis of God works satisfactorily in the widest sense of the word, it is true.
WILLIAM JAMES

God Principles Theism
A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.
WILLIAM JAMES

Life Stay Strong Ties
No one sees further into a generalization than his own knowledge of detail extends.
WILLIAM JAMES

Details Generalization Knowledge
He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed.
WILLIAM JAMES

Encouragement Encouraging Inspirational
Footnotes — little dogs yapping at the heels of the text
WILLIAM JAMES

Dog Littles Writing
Give your dreams all you’ve got, and you’ll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you.
WILLIAM JAMES

Basketball Dream Perseverance
We are stereotyped creatures, imitators and copiers of our past selves.
WILLIAM JAMES

Habit Past Self
Once you accept an idea, it’s an idea whose time has come.
WILLIAM JAMES

Accepting Daring Ideas

We can change our circumstances by a mere change of our attitude.

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