Anything you may hold firmly in your imagination can be yours.
WILLIAM JAMESLet everything you do be done as if it makes a difference.
More William James Quotes
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All religions begin with the cry Help.
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Language is the most imperfect and expensive means yet discovered for communicating thought.
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All of our life is but a mass of small habits – practical, emotional, intellectual and spiritual – that bear us irresistibly toward our destiny.
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The ‘I think’ which Kant said must be able to accompany all my objects, is the ‘I breathe’ which actually does accompany them.
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Habit is a second nature, or rather, it is ‘ten times nature’.
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Our view of the world is truly shaped by what we decide to hear.
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Everything which is demanded is by that fact a good.
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Touch is the alpha and omega of affection.
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The drunken consciousness is one bit of the mystic consciousness, and our total opinion of it must find its place in our opinion of that larger whole.
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In business for yourself, not by yourself.
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Lives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or being.
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Earnestness means willingness to live with energy, though energy bring pain.
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In the matter of belief, we are all extreme conservatives.
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Truth happens to an idea
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The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.
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