The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
WILLIAM JAMESMan lives in only one small room of the enormous house of his consciousness.
More William James Quotes
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There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood bu those who hear it.
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Genius… means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.
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Man, whatever else he may be, is primarily a practical being, whose mind is given him to aid in adapting him to this world’s life
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Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
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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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To consider hypotheses is surely always better than to dogmatize ins blaue hinein
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There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.
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The education of attention would be an education par excellence
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In business for yourself, not by yourself.
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Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.
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Fear of life in one form or another is the great thing to exorcise.
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It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.
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Circumstance does not make me, it reveals me.
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You can alter your life by altering the state of your mind.
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We forget that every good that is worth possessing must be paid for in strokes of daily effort.
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