As long as there are postmen, life will have zest.
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More William James Quotes
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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 first lecture in psychology that I ever heard was the first I ever gave.
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We forget that every good that is worth possessing must be paid for in strokes of daily effort.
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Faith is synonymous with working hypothesis.
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Genius is the capacity for seeing relationships where lesser men see none.
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The deepest hunger in human beings is the desire to be appreciated.
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When thoughts do not neutralize an undesirable emotion, action will.
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[Religion is] the attempt to be in harmony with an unseen order of things.
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Wisdom is learning what to overlook.
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Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
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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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If you want to change your life, do it flamboyantly and start immediately.
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Asceticism may be a mere expression of organic hardihood, disgusted with too much ease.
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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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He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed.
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