We want all our friends to tell us our bad qualities; it is only the particular ass that does so whom we can’t tolerate.
WILLIAM JAMESYou may not get everything you dream about, but you will never get anything you don’t dream about.
More William James Quotes
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There can be no final truth in ethics any more than in physics, until the last man has had his experience and said his say.
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Mankind’s common instinct for reality has always held the world to be essentially a theatre for heroism.
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The total possible consciousness may be split into parts which co-exist but mutually ignore each other.
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New habits can be launched.
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Our beliefs are really rules for action.
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The minute a man ceases to grow, no matter what his years, that minute he begins to be old.
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If you give appreciation to people, you win their goodwill. But more important than that, practicing this philosophy has made a different person of me.
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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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The education of attention would be an education par excellence
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We are stereotyped creatures, imitators and copiers of our past selves.
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Man, whatever else he may be, is primarily a practical being, whose mind is given him to aid in adapting him to this world’s life
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Give your dreams all you’ve got, and you’ll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you.
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Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
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True ideas are those that we can assimilate, validate, corroborate, and verify. False ideas are those that we cannot
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When you have broken the reality into concepts you never can reconstruct it in its wholeness.
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