We may be in the Universe as dogs and cats are in our libraries, seeing the books and hearing the conversation, but having no inkling of the meaning of it all.
WILLIAM JAMESIf you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.
More William James Quotes
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To change ones life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly.
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There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man’s lack of faith in his true Self.
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Everything which is demanded is by that fact a good.
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New habits can be launched.
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Most unhappiness is caused because people listen to themselves… instead of talking to themselves.
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Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system
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Man, biologically considered … is simply the most formidable of all beasts of prey, and, indeed, the only one that preys systematically on its own kind.
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Objective evidence and certitude are doubtless very fine ideals to play with, but where on this moonlit and dream-visited planet are they found?
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Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
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Our view of the world is truly shaped by what we decide to hear.
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To know an object is to lead to it through a context which the world provides
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At bottom, the whole concern of religion is with the manner of our acceptance of the universe.
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How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.
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Procrastination is attitude’s natural assassin. There’s nothing so fatiguing as an uncompleted task
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The deepest hunger in human beings is the desire to be appreciated.
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