The sovereign cure for worry is prayer.
WILLIAM JAMESPure experience’ is the name I gave to the immediate flux of life which furnishes the material to our later reflection with its conceptual categories.
More William James Quotes
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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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The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
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The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.
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Circumstance does not make me, it reveals me.
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No living person is sunk so low as not to be imitated by somebody.
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Effort is the one strictly undervalued and original contribution we make to this world.
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Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive.
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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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Wisdom is learning what to overlook.
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The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
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Democracy is still upon its trial. The civic genius of our people is its only bulwark.
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There is but one unconditional commandment … to bring about the very largest total universe of good which we can see.
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We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.
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To improve the golden moment of opportunity, and catch the good that is within our reach, is the great art of life.
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It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.
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