As long as there are postmen, life will have zest.
WILLIAM JAMESLet everything you do be done as if it makes a difference.
More William James Quotes
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Circumstance does not make me, it reveals me.
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A new idea is first condemned as ridiculous and then dismissed as trivial, until finally, it becomes what everybody knows.
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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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The ultimate test of what a truth means is the conduct it dictates or inspires.
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It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.
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The instant field of the present is at all times what I call the ‘pure’ experience. It is only virtually or potentially either object or subject as yet.
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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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The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly.
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The world is all the richer for having a devil in it, so long as we keep our foot upon his neck.
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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.
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Most unhappiness is caused because people listen to themselves… instead of talking to themselves.
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The mind, in short, works on the data it receives very much as the sculptor works on his block of stone.
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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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We are proud of a human nature that could be so passionately extreme, but we shrink from advising others to follow the example.
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It seems the natural thing for us to listen whilst the Europeans talk.
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