The minute a man ceases to grow, no matter what his years, that minute he begins to be old.
WILLIAM JAMESMan alone of all the creatures of earth can change his own pattern. Man alone is the architect of his own destiny.
More William James Quotes
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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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A paradise of inward tranquility seems to be faith’s usual result.
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All natural happiness thus seems infected with a contradiction. The breath of the sepulchre surrounds it.
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Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day.
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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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We hear the words we have spoken, feel our own blow as we give it, or read in the bystander’s eyes the success or failure of our conduct.
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It is art that makes life, and I know of no substitute whatsoever for the force and beauty of its process.
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A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.
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Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive.
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One of the greatest discoveries of our time is that a man can alter the state of their life by altering the state of their mind.
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In the matter of belief, we are all extreme conservatives.
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The great thing, then, in all education, is to make our nervous system our ally instead of our enemy.
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What would be better for us to believe!’ This sounds very like a definition of truth
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Lives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or being.
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