The true’to put it very briefly, is only the expedient in the way of our thinking, just as ‘the right’ is only the expedient in the way of our behaving.
WILLIAM JAMESIf you want to change your life, do it flamboyantly and start immediately.
More William James Quotes
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A sense of humor is just common sense dancing.
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In the matter of belief, we are all extreme conservatives.
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For the moment, what we attend to is reality.
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The impulse to take life strivingly is indestructible in the race.
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Most unhappiness is caused because people listen to themselves… instead of talking to themselves.
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With mere good intentions hell is proverbially paved.
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[T]here is very little difference between one person and another, but what little difference ther eis, is very important.
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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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We can change our circumstances by a mere change of our attitude.
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Our beliefs and our attention are the same fact.
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To give up pretensions is as blessed a relief as to get them ratified.
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The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
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A paradise of inward tranquility seems to be faith’s usual result.
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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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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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