You can alter your life by altering the state of your mind.
WILLIAM JAMESTruth happens to an idea
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The first lecture in psychology that I ever heard was the first I ever gave.
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Individuality is founded in feeling
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History is a bath of blood.
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There can be no difference anywhere that does not make a difference somewhere.
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Men habitually use only a small part of the power which they actually possess.
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The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
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Everything which is demanded is by that fact a good.
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A sense of humor is just common sense dancing.
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Each of us is in fact what he is almost exclusively by virtue of his imitative-ness.
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A new position of responsibility will usually show a man to be a far stronger creature than was supposed.
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The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.
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The strenuous life tastes better
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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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Earnestness means willingness to live with energy, though energy bring pain.
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There is but one unconditional commandment … to bring about the very largest total universe of good which we can see.
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