To change ones life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly.
WILLIAM JAMESFaith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.
More William James Quotes
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No bell in us tolls to let us know for certain when truth is in our grasp.
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Our beliefs are really rules for action.
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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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The sovereign cure for worry is prayer.
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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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[Religion is] the attempt to be in harmony with an unseen order of things.
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Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day.
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The first lecture in psychology that I ever heard was the first I ever gave.
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To know an object is to lead to it through a context which the world provides
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Where quality is the thing sought after, the thing of supreme quality is cheap, whatever the price one has to pay for it.
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Mankind’s common instinct for reality has always held the world to be essentially a theatre for heroism.
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Man, biologically considered … is simply the most formidable of all beasts of prey, and, indeed, the only one that preys systematically on its own kind.
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Footnotes — little dogs yapping at the heels of the text
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Man can alter his life by altering his thinking.
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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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