The deepest human need is the need to be appreciated.
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 intellectual life of man consists almost wholly in his substitution of conceptual order for the perceptual order in which his experience originally comes.
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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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If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.
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Our beliefs are really rules for action.
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The difference between objective and subjective extension is one of relation to a context solely.
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With no attempt there can be no failure; with no failure no humiliation.
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Religion . . . shall mean for us the feelings, acts and experiences of individual men in their solitude.
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Footnotes — little dogs yapping at the heels of the text
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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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So our self-feeling in this world depends entirely on what we back ourselves to be and do.
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Fear of life in one form or another is the great thing to exorcise.
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Man can change his life simply by changing his attitude.
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The teachers of this country, one may say, have its future in their hands.
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The discovery of the power of our thoughts will prove to be the most important discovery of our time
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Owing to the fact that all experience is a process, no point of view can ever be the last one
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