To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.
WILLIAM JAMESJust 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
More William James Quotes
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Man lives in only one small room of the enormous house of his consciousness.
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To neglect the wise sayings of great thinkers is to deny ourselves the truest education.
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To change ones life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly.
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Wisdom is learning what to overlook.
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A new opinion counts as true just in proportion as it gratifies the individual’s desire to assimilate the novel in his experience to his beliefs in stock
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Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being.
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Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.
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To know an object is to lead to it through a context which the world provides
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Our view of the world is truly shaped by what we decide to hear.
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We 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.
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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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Procrastination is attitude’s natural assassin. There’s nothing so fatiguing as an uncompleted task
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I don’t sing because I’m happy; I’m happy because I sing.
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He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed.
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We must be careful not to confuse data with the abstractions we use to analyse them.
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