Man can change his life simply by changing his attitude.
WILLIAM JAMESThe great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
More William James Quotes
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Lives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or being.
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If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.
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For morality life is a war, and the service of the highest is a sort of cosmic patriotism which also calls for volunteers.
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In the matter of belief, we are all extreme conservatives.
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Tension is a habit. Relaxing is a habit. Bad habits can be broken, good habits formed.
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The discovery of the power of our thoughts will prove to be the most important discovery of our time
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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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Fear of life in one form or another is the great thing to exorcise.
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Religion is a monumental chapter in the history of human egotism.
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To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.
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It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.
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The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.
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We may be in the Universe as dogs and cats are in our libraries, seeing the books and hearing the conversation, but having no inkling of the meaning of it all.
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Procrastination is attitude’s natural assassin. There’s nothing so fatiguing as an uncompleted task
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Organization and method mean much, but contagious human characters mean more in a university.
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