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Most unhappiness is caused because people listen to themselves… instead of talking to themselves.

William James

Genius… means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.
WILLIAM JAMES

Creativity Mean Science
The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
WILLIAM JAMES

Inspirational Life Motivational
You may not get everything you dream about, but you will never get anything you don’t dream about.
WILLIAM JAMES

Anything Dream Everything May
Objective evidence and certitude are doubtless very fine ideals to play with, but where on this moonlit and dream-visited planet are they found?
WILLIAM JAMES

Dream Play Science
Science, like life, feeds on its own decay. New facts burst old rules; then newly divined conceptions bind old and new together into a reconciling law.
WILLIAM JAMES

Law Science Together
Impulse without reason is enough, and reason without impulse is a poor makeshift.
WILLIAM JAMES

Enough Poor Reason
So to feel brave, act as if we were brave, use all our will to that end…and a courage-fit will very likely replace the fit of fear.
WILLIAM JAMES

Anticipation Brave Use
The teachers of this country, one may say, have its future in their hands.
WILLIAM JAMES

Country Teacher Teaching
I don’t sing because I’m happy; I’m happy because I sing.
WILLIAM JAMES

Happiness Music Philosophical
The deepest human need is the need to be appreciated.
WILLIAM JAMES

Appreciated Humans Needs
The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly.
WILLIAM JAMES

Attitude Mean Ugly
Men’s activities are occupied into ways — in grappling with external circumstances and in striving to set things at one in their own topsy-turvy mind.
WILLIAM JAMES

Men Mind Way
History is a bath of blood.
WILLIAM JAMES

Bath Blood History
The great thing, then, in all education, is to make our nervous system our ally instead of our enemy.
WILLIAM JAMES

Allies Education Enemy
To know an object is to lead to it through a context which the world provides
WILLIAM JAMES

Objects Truth World
A sense of humor is just common sense dancing.
WILLIAM JAMES

Common Dance Humor Sense

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