If merely ‘feeling good’ could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.
WILLIAM JAMESIs life worth living? It all depends on the liver.
More William James Quotes
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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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The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.
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Most men have a good memory for facts connected with their own pursuits.
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Experience, as we know, has a way of boiling over, and making us correct our present formulas.
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The greatest weapon we have to combat stress is the ability to choose our thoughts.
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When once a decision is reached and execution is the order of the day, dismiss absolutely all responsibility and care about the outcome.
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A new opinion counts as true just in proportion as it gratifies the individual’s desire to assimilate the novel in his experience to his beliefs in stock
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Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.
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Where is it, this present? It has melted in our grasp, fled ere we could touch it, gone in the instant of becoming.
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The sovereign cure for worry is prayer.
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The strenuous life tastes better
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To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.
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Procrastination is attitude’s natural assassin. There’s nothing so fatiguing as an uncompleted task
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So to feel brave, act as if we were brave, use all our will to that end…and a courage-fit will very likely replace the fit of fear.
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I don’t sing because I’m happy; I’m happy because I sing.
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