New habits can be launched.
WILLIAM JAMESNew habits can be launched.
More William James Quotes
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The mind, in short, works on the data it receives very much as the sculptor works on his block of stone.
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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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I am well aware how odd it must seem to some of you to hear me say that an idea is true so long as to believe it is profitable to our lives
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Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
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But facts are facts, and if we only get enough of them theyare sure to combine.
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Men habitually use only a small part of the power which they actually possess.
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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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The difference between objective and subjective extension is one of relation to a context solely.
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For the moment, what we attend to is reality.
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If merely ‘feeling good’ could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.
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What would be better for us to believe!’ This sounds very like a definition of truth
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A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.
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Man can change his life simply by changing his attitude.
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True to her inveterate habit, rationalism reverts to ‘principles,’ and thinks that when an abstraction once is named, we own an oracular solution.
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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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