Earnestness means willingness to live with energy, though energy bring pain.
WILLIAM JAMESThe discovery of the power of our thoughts will prove to be the most important discovery of our time
More William James Quotes
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Truth happens to an idea
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Our faith is faith in someone else’s faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.
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Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.
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All natural goods perish. Riches take wings; fame is a breath; love is a cheat; youth and health and pleasure vanish.
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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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The teachers of this country, one may say, have its future in their hands.
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Man can alter his life by altering his thinking.
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Anything you may hold firmly in your imagination can be yours.
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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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There can be no existence of evil as a force to the healthy-minded individual.
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The sovereign cure for worry is prayer.
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It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.
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If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.
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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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Success plus Self-esteem equals Pretensions.
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