Man lives in only one small room of the enormous house of his consciousness.
WILLIAM JAMESThe lunatic’s visions of horror are all drawn from the material of daily fact.
More William James Quotes
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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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Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
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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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The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly.
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If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.
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The true’to put it very briefly, is only the expedient in the way of our thinking, just as ‘the right’ is only the expedient in the way of our behaving.
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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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The first lecture in psychology that I ever heard was the first I ever gave.
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No one sees further into a generalization than his own knowledge of detail extends.
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Tension is a habit. Relaxing is a habit. Bad habits can be broken, good habits formed.
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Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.
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Genius… means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.
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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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To change ones life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly.
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There can be no existence of evil as a force to the healthy-minded individual.
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