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.
WILLIAM JAMESThere is but one cause of human failure. And that is man’s lack of faith in his true Self.
More William James Quotes
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Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.
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When once a decision is reached and execution is the order of the day, dismiss absolutely all responsibility and care about the outcome.
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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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But facts are facts, and if we only get enough of them theyare sure to combine.
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Religion . . . shall mean for us the feelings, acts and experiences of individual men in their solitude.
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Let everything you do be done as if it makes a difference.
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The strenuous life tastes better
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The deepest hunger in human beings is the desire to be appreciated.
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Footnotes — little dogs yapping at the heels of the text
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Religion is a monumental chapter in the history of human egotism.
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So our self-feeling in this world depends entirely on what we back ourselves to be and do.
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The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
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Give your dreams all you’ve got, and you’ll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you.
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Effort is the one strictly undervalued and original contribution we make to this world.
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The deepest longing in the human breast is the desire for appreciation.
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