The impulse to take life strivingly is indestructible in the race.
WILLIAM JAMESMan can change his life simply by changing his attitude.
More William James Quotes
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We must be careful not to confuse data with the abstractions we use to analyse them.
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To improve the golden moment of opportunity, and catch the good that is within our reach, is the great art of life.
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It is very important that teachers should realize the importance of habit.
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As long as there are postmen, life will have zest.
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All natural happiness thus seems infected with a contradiction. The breath of the sepulchre surrounds it.
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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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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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The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.
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Experience, as we know, has a way of boiling over, and making us correct our present formulas.
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It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.
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Faith is synonymous with working hypothesis.
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There’s nothing so absurd that if you repeat it often enough, people will believe it.
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When thoughts do not neutralize an undesirable emotion, action will.
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[Religion is] the attempt to be in harmony with an unseen order of things.
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All of our life is but a mass of small habits – practical, emotional, intellectual and spiritual – that bear us irresistibly toward our destiny.
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