If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.
WILLIAM JAMES… the intellect, everywhere invasive, shows everywhere its shallowing effect.
More William James Quotes
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The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.
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If merely ‘feeling good’ could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.
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Tension is a habit. Relaxing is a habit. Bad habits can be broken, good habits formed.
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If you want to change your life, do it flamboyantly and start immediately.
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I don’t sing because I’m happy; I’m happy because I sing.
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A man has as many social selves as there are individuals who recognize him.
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Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.
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Religion is a monumental chapter in the history of human egotism.
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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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The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.
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Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.
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It is art that makes life, and I know of no substitute whatsoever for the force and beauty of its process.
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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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For the moment, what we attend to is reality.
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To change ones life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly.
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