If you want to change your life, do it flamboyantly and start immediately.
WILLIAM JAMESReligion . . . shall mean for us the feelings, acts and experiences of individual men in their solitude.
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The great thing, then, in all education, is to make our nervous system our ally instead of our enemy.
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We are thinking beings, and we cannot exclude the intellect from participating in any of our functions.
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Lives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or being.
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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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Let everything you do be done as if it makes a difference.
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New habits can be launched.
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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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The first lecture in psychology that I ever heard was the first I ever gave.
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The instant field of the present is at all times what I call the ‘pure’ experience. It is only virtually or potentially either object or subject as yet.
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We may be in the Universe as dogs and cats are in our libraries, seeing the books and hearing the conversation, but having no inkling of the meaning of it all.
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The deepest hunger in human beings is the desire to be appreciated.
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To neglect the wise sayings of great thinkers is to deny ourselves the truest education.
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The most peculiar social self which one is apt to have is in the mind of the person one is in love with.
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Just 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
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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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