What would be better for us to believe!’ This sounds very like a definition of truth
WILLIAM JAMESGreat emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.
More William James Quotes
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If you want to change your life, do it flamboyantly and start immediately.
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The lunatic’s visions of horror are all drawn from the material of daily fact.
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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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The power to move the world is in the subconcious mind
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We want all our friends to tell us our bad qualities; it is only the particular ass that does so whom we can’t tolerate.
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Man can change his life simply by changing his attitude.
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True ideas are those that we can assimilate, validate, corroborate, and verify. False ideas are those that we cannot
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The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one.
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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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Let everything you do be done as if it makes a difference.
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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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Just for today I will exercise my soul in three ways: I will do somebody a good turn and not get found out. I will do at least two things I don’t want to do
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We with our lives are like islands in the sea, or like trees in the forest… But the trees also commingle their roots in the darkness underground.
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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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Procrastination is attitude’s natural assassin. There’s nothing so fatiguing as an uncompleted task
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