The deepest hunger in human beings is the desire to be appreciated.
WILLIAM JAMESHistory is a bath of blood.
More William James Quotes
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If you want to change your life, do it flamboyantly and start immediately.
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To know an object is to lead to it through a context which the world provides
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The general law is that no mental modification ever occurs which is not accompanied or followed by a bodily change.
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Most unhappiness is caused because people listen to themselves… instead of talking to themselves.
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Just for today I will exercise my soul in three ways: I will do somebody a good turn and not get found out. I will do at least two things I don’t want to do
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There can be no existence of evil as a force to the healthy-minded individual.
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Our beliefs are really rules for action.
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Procrastination is attitude’s natural assassin. There’s nothing so fatiguing as an uncompleted task
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That which is most personal, is most interesting.
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In all primary school work the principle of multiple impressions is well recognized.
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New habits can be launched.
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The question of free will is insoluble on strictly psychological grounds.
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Effort is the one strictly undervalued and original contribution we make to this world.
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There’s nothing so absurd that if you repeat it often enough, people will believe it.
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The true’to put it very briefly, is only the expedient in the way of our thinking, just as ‘the right’ is only the expedient in the way of our behaving.
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