Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive.
WILLIAM JAMESProcrastination is attitude’s natural assassin. There’s nothing so fatiguing as an uncompleted task
More William James Quotes
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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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Give your dreams all you’ve got, and you’ll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you.
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Truth happens to an idea
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Democracy is still upon its trial. The civic genius of our people is its only bulwark.
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Experience, as we know, has a way of boiling over, and making us correct our present formulas.
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Men’s activities are occupied into ways — in grappling with external circumstances and in striving to set things at one in their own topsy-turvy mind.
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We 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.
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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.
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The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly.
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Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system
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The difference between objective and subjective extension is one of relation to a context solely.
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All natural goods perish. Riches take wings; fame is a breath; love is a cheat; youth and health and pleasure vanish.
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The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.
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There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood bu those who hear it.
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For the moment, what we attend to is reality.
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