There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood bu those who hear it.
WILLIAM JAMESIf you give appreciation to people, you win their goodwill. But more important than that, practicing this philosophy has made a different person of me.
More William James Quotes
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If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.
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Religion . . . shall mean for us the feelings, acts and experiences of individual men in their solitude.
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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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Procrastination is attitude’s natural assassin. There’s nothing so fatiguing as an uncompleted task
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Truth is something that happens to an idea.
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The difference between objective and subjective extension is one of relation to a context solely.
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How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.
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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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We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.
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… the intellect, everywhere invasive, shows everywhere its shallowing effect.
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The total possible consciousness may be split into parts which co-exist but mutually ignore each other.
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Man, biologically considered … is simply the most formidable of all beasts of prey, and, indeed, the only one that preys systematically on its own kind.
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Man can alter his life by altering his thinking.
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The power to move the world is in the subconcious mind
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He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed.
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