So our self-feeling in this world depends entirely on what we back ourselves to be and do.
WILLIAM JAMESIt is art that makes life, and I know of no substitute whatsoever for the force and beauty of its process.
More William James Quotes
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The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly.
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Wisdom is learning what to overlook.
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Habit is thus the enormous fly-wheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. It alone is what keeps us all within the bounds of ordinance.
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Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.
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Focus on increasing service. Becoming great where you are. Pile in the wood. The heat will follow.
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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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If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.
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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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No living person is sunk so low as not to be imitated by somebody.
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The first lecture in psychology that I ever heard was the first I ever gave.
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Where is it, this present? It has melted in our grasp, fled ere we could touch it, gone in the instant of becoming.
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The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.
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Religion is a monumental chapter in the history of human egotism.
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You must bring out of each word its practical cash-value, set it at work within the stream of your experience.
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