Man can change his life simply by changing his attitude.
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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The teachers of this country, one may say, have its future in their hands.
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Every individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony.
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The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly.
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Both thought and feeling are determinants of conduct, and the same conduct may be determined either by feeling or by thought.
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Truth is something that happens to an idea.
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Effort is the one strictly undervalued and original contribution we make to this world.
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Our beliefs are really rules for action.
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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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There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood bu those who hear it.
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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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We are proud of a human nature that could be so passionately extreme, but we shrink from advising others to follow the example.
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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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The drunken consciousness is one bit of the mystic consciousness, and our total opinion of it must find its place in our opinion of that larger whole.
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Our beliefs and our attention are the same fact.
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The total possible consciousness may be split into parts which co-exist but mutually ignore each other.
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