Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.
WILLIAM JAMESThere is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.
More William James Quotes
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A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.
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Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
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To know an object is to lead to it through a context which the world provides
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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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Touch is the alpha and omega of affection.
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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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Genius is the capacity for seeing relationships where lesser men see none.
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The discovery of the power of our thoughts will prove to be the most important discovery of our time
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Objective evidence and certitude are doubtless very fine ideals to play with, but where on this moonlit and dream-visited planet are they found?
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But facts are facts, and if we only get enough of them theyare sure to combine.
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I am well aware how odd it must seem to some of you to hear me say that an idea is true so long as to believe it is profitable to our lives
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There can be no existence of evil as a force to the healthy-minded individual.
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We hear the words we have spoken, feel our own blow as we give it, or read in the bystander’s eyes the success or failure of our conduct.
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When you have broken the reality into concepts you never can reconstruct it in its wholeness.
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Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.
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