A sense of humor is just common sense dancing.
WILLIAM JAMESSince you make evil or good by your own thoughts, it is your ruling of your thoughts which proves to be your principal concern.
More William James Quotes
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Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive.
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To some of us the thought of God is like a sort of quiet music playing in the background of the mind.
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The teachers of this country, one may say, have its future in their hands.
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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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You can alter your life by altering the state of your mind.
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New habits can be launched.
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I don’t sing because I’m happy; I’m happy because I sing.
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The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
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All natural happiness thus seems infected with a contradiction. The breath of the sepulchre surrounds it.
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Genius is the capacity for seeing relationships where lesser men see none.
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The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.
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Man can change his life simply by changing his attitude.
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Facts’ are the bounds of human knowledge, set for it, not by it.
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There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood bu those who hear it.
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All of our life is but a mass of small habits – practical, emotional, intellectual and spiritual – that bear us irresistibly toward our destiny.
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