History is a bath of blood.
WILLIAM JAMESThe sovereign cure for worry is prayer.
More William James Quotes
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The greatest weapon we have to combat stress is the ability to choose our thoughts.
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There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood bu those who hear it.
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Our view of the world is truly shaped by what we decide to hear.
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True to her inveterate habit, rationalism reverts to ‘principles,’ and thinks that when an abstraction once is named, we own an oracular solution.
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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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Truth is something that happens to an idea.
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The mind, in short, works on the data it receives very much as the sculptor works on his block of stone.
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To improve the golden moment of opportunity, and catch the good that is within our reach, is the great art of life.
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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 intellectual life of man consists almost wholly in his substitution of conceptual order for the perceptual order in which his experience originally comes.
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There can be no difference anywhere that does not make a difference somewhere.
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Lives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or being.
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New habits can be launched.
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Facts’ are the bounds of human knowledge, set for it, not by it.
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You must bring out of each word its practical cash-value, set it at work within the stream of your experience.
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