Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
WILLIAM JAMESWe are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.
More William James Quotes
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Focus on increasing service. Becoming great where you are. Pile in the wood. The heat will follow.
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The world is all the richer for having a devil in it, so long as we keep our foot upon his neck.
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A man has as many social selves as there are individuals who recognize him.
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Fear of life in one form or another is the great thing to exorcise.
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Owing to the fact that all experience is a process, no point of view can ever be the last one
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Religion . . . shall mean for us the feelings, acts and experiences of individual men in their solitude.
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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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So it is with children who learn to read fluently and well: They begin to take flight into whole new worlds as effortlessly as young birds take to the sky.
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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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Truth, as any dictionary will tell you, is a property of certain of our ideas. It means their agreement, as falsity means their disagreement, with reality.
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Our faith is faith in someone else’s faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.
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How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.
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Since you make evil or good by your own thoughts, it is your ruling of your thoughts which proves to be your principal concern.
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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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At bottom, the whole concern of religion is with the manner of our acceptance of the universe.
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