To change ones life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly.
WILLIAM JAMESGive your dreams all you’ve got, and you’ll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you.
More William James Quotes
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The impulse to take life strivingly is indestructible in the race.
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The world is all the richer for having a devil in it, so long as we keep our foot upon his neck.
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The God of many men is little more than their court of appeal against the damnatory judgment passed on their failures by the opinion of the world.
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Once you accept an idea, it’s an idea whose time has come.
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We must be careful not to confuse data with the abstractions we use to analyse them.
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Both thought and feeling are determinants of conduct, and the same conduct may be determined either by feeling or by thought.
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All natural happiness thus seems infected with a contradiction. The breath of the sepulchre surrounds it.
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To know an object is to lead to it through a context which the world provides
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Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day.
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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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Footnotes — little dogs yapping at the heels of the text
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All religions begin with the cry Help.
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All of our life is but a mass of small habits – practical, emotional, intellectual and spiritual – that bear us irresistibly toward our destiny.
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Most men have a good memory for facts connected with their own pursuits.
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Earnestness means willingness to live with energy, though energy bring pain.
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