We may be in the Universe as dogs and cats are in our libraries, seeing the books and hearing the conversation, but having no inkling of the meaning of it all.
WILLIAM JAMESLet everything you do be done as if it makes a difference.
More William James Quotes
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The greatest weapon we have to combat stress is the ability to choose our thoughts.
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Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive.
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There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood bu those who hear it.
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Asceticism may be a mere expression of organic hardihood, disgusted with too much ease.
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The deepest hunger in human beings is the desire to be appreciated.
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The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.
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To know an object is to lead to it through a context which the world provides
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If merely ‘feeling good’ could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.
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If you want to change your life, do it flamboyantly and start immediately.
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Success plus Self-esteem equals Pretensions.
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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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Our beliefs and our attention are the same fact.
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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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The deepest human need is the need to be appreciated.
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In all primary school work the principle of multiple impressions is well recognized.
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