Man lives in only one small room of the enormous house of his consciousness.
WILLIAM JAMESImpulse without reason is enough, and reason without impulse is a poor makeshift.
More William James Quotes
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There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man’s lack of faith in his true Self.
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Habit is a second nature, or rather, it is ‘ten times nature’.
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Our faith is faith in someone else’s faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.
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Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
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We can change our circumstances by a mere change of our attitude.
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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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The sovereign cure for worry is prayer.
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Time itself comes in drops.
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It seems the natural thing for us to listen whilst the Europeans talk.
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Since you make evil or good by your own thoughts, it is your ruling of your thoughts which proves to be your principal concern.
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The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one.
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So it is with children who learn to read fluently and well: They begin to take flight into whole new worlds as effortlessly as young birds take to the sky.
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Our beliefs are really rules for action.
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New habits can be launched.
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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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