Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.
WILLIAM JAMESMan can change his life simply by changing his attitude.
More William James Quotes
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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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Our beliefs are really rules for action.
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Individuality is founded in feeling
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He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed.
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Lives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or being.
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A man of sense is never discouraged by difficulties; he redoubles his industry and his diligence, he perseveres and infallibly prevails at last.
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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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Deepest principle of human nature is to be appreciated.
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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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A paradise of inward tranquility seems to be faith’s usual result.
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Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
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There’s nothing so absurd that if you repeat it often enough, people will believe it.
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Man lives in only one small room of the enormous house of his consciousness.
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To neglect the wise sayings of great thinkers is to deny ourselves the truest education.
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Tension is a habit. Relaxing is a habit. Bad habits can be broken, good habits formed.
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