All natural happiness thus seems infected with a contradiction. The breath of the sepulchre surrounds it.
WILLIAM JAMESThe great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
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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Genius… means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.
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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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Wisdom is learning what to overlook.
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Procrastination is attitude’s natural assassin. There’s nothing so fatiguing as an uncompleted task
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[Religion is] the attempt to be in harmony with an unseen order of things.
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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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The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly.
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In the matter of belief, we are all extreme conservatives.
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An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.
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Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.
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Earnestness means willingness to live with energy, though energy bring pain.
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Impulse without reason is enough, and reason without impulse is a poor makeshift.
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We with our lives are like islands in the sea, or like trees in the forest… But the trees also commingle their roots in the darkness underground.
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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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