Earnestness means willingness to live with energy, though energy bring pain.
WILLIAM JAMESMan can change his life simply by changing his attitude.
More William James Quotes
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There can be no difference anywhere that does not make a difference somewhere.
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Our intelligence cannot wall itself up alive, like a pupa in a chrysalis. It must at any cost keep on speaking terms with the universe that engendered it.
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The greatest weapon we have to combat stress is the ability to choose our thoughts.
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To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.
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Lives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or being.
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For morality life is a war, and the service of the highest is a sort of cosmic patriotism which also calls for volunteers.
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The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.
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Success plus Self-esteem equals Pretensions.
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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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Let everything you do be done as if it makes a difference.
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The impulse to take life strivingly is indestructible in the race.
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You must bring out of each word its practical cash-value, set it at work within the stream of your experience.
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Asceticism may be a mere expression of organic hardihood, disgusted with too much ease.
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Truth happens to an idea
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The most immutable barrier in nature is between one man’s thoughts and another’s.
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