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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Man lives in only one small room of the enormous house of his consciousness.
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A new position of responsibility will usually show a man to be a far stronger creature than was supposed.
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Religion . . . shall mean for us the feelings, acts and experiences of individual men in their solitude.
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Most men have a good memory for facts connected with their own pursuits.
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The most immutable barrier in nature is between one man’s thoughts and another’s.
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The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.
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It is art that makes life, and I know of no substitute whatsoever for the force and beauty of its process.
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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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One of the greatest discoveries of our time is that a man can alter the state of their life by altering the state of their mind.
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Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.
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Facts’ are the bounds of human knowledge, set for it, not by it.
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Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
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Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.
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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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