To neglect the wise sayings of great thinkers is to deny ourselves the truest education.
WILLIAM JAMES[Religion is] the attempt to be in harmony with an unseen order of things.
More William James Quotes
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That which is most personal, is most interesting.
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How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.
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We hear the words we have spoken, feel our own blow as we give it, or read in the bystander’s eyes the success or failure of our conduct.
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Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.
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Pure experience’ is the name I gave to the immediate flux of life which furnishes the material to our later reflection with its conceptual categories.
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Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
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A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.
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We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.
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Our beliefs are really rules for action.
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Focus on increasing service. Becoming great where you are. Pile in the wood. The heat will follow.
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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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The power to move the world is in the subconcious mind
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We are stereotyped creatures, imitators and copiers of our past selves.
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The minute a man ceases to grow, no matter what his years, that minute he begins to be old.
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You must bring out of each word its practical cash-value, set it at work within the stream of your experience.
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