Real culture lives by sympathies and admirations, not by dislikes and disdains; under all misleading wrappings it pounces unerringly upon the human core.
WILLIAM JAMESHuman beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
More William James Quotes
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You can alter your life by altering the state of your mind.
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If merely ‘feeling good’ could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.
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Men habitually use only a small part of the power which they actually possess.
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Science, like life, feeds on its own decay. New facts burst old rules; then newly divined conceptions bind old and new together into a reconciling law.
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Religious awe is the same organic thrill which we feel in a forest at twilight, or in a mountain gorge.
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Deepest principle of human nature is to be appreciated.
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It is very important that teachers should realize the importance of habit.
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Truth for us is simply a collective name for verification processes
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Tension is a habit. Relaxing is a habit. Bad habits can be broken, good habits formed.
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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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The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.
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The God of many men is little more than their court of appeal against the damnatory judgment passed on their failures by the opinion of the world.
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Give your dreams all you’ve got, and you’ll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you.
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Most unhappiness is caused because people listen to themselves… instead of talking to themselves.
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Genius is the capacity for seeing relationships where lesser men see none.
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