Most unhappiness is caused because people listen to themselves… instead of talking to themselves.
WILLIAM JAMESIf you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.
More William James Quotes
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History is a bath of blood.
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What would be better for us to believe!’ This sounds very like a definition of truth
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For the moment, what we attend to is reality.
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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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If you give appreciation to people, you win their goodwill. But more important than that, practicing this philosophy has made a different person of me.
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Religion . . . shall mean for us the feelings, acts and experiences of individual men in their solitude.
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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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A man has as many social selves as there are individuals who recognize him.
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The deepest hunger in human beings is the desire to be appreciated.
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If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.
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Every individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony.
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The question of free will is insoluble on strictly psychological grounds.
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Truth for us is simply a collective name for verification processes
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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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Men habitually use only a small part of the power which they actually possess.
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