Man can change his life simply by changing his attitude.
WILLIAM JAMESMen habitually use only a small part of the power which they actually possess.
More William James Quotes
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Democracy is still upon its trial. The civic genius of our people is its only bulwark.
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It is very important that teachers should realize the importance of habit.
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Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
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Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being.
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Science, like life, feeds on its own decay. New facts burst old rules; then newly divined conceptions bind old and new together into a reconciling law.
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The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly.
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Man lives in only one small room of the enormous house of his consciousness.
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True ideas are those that we can assimilate, validate, corroborate, and verify. False ideas are those that we cannot
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The impulse to take life strivingly is indestructible in the race.
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Man alone of all the creatures of earth can change his own pattern. Man alone is the architect of his own destiny.
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To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.
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The ultimate test of what a truth means is the conduct it dictates or inspires.
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A man with no philosophy in him is the most inauspicious and unprofitable of all possible social mates.
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In the matter of belief, we are all extreme conservatives.
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Religious awe is the same organic thrill which we feel in a forest at twilight, or in a mountain gorge.
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