The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
WILLIAM JAMESWe 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.
More William James Quotes
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Most unhappiness is caused because people listen to themselves… instead of talking to themselves.
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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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A paradise of inward tranquility seems to be faith’s usual result.
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Genius is the capacity for seeing relationships where lesser men see none.
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Anything you may hold firmly in your imagination can be yours.
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Lives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or being.
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Success plus Self-esteem equals Pretensions.
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Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.
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We can change our circumstances by a mere change of our attitude.
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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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There’s nothing so absurd that if you repeat it often enough, people will believe it.
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There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood bu those who hear it.
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A man of sense is never discouraged by difficulties; he redoubles his industry and his diligence, he perseveres and infallibly prevails at last.
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Individuality is founded in feeling
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We are thinking beings, and we cannot exclude the intellect from participating in any of our functions.
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