Real culture lives by sympathies and admirations, not by dislikes and disdains; under all misleading wrappings it pounces unerringly upon the human core.
WILLIAM JAMESTo change ones life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly.
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No one sees further into a generalization than his own knowledge of detail extends.
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The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.
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The mind, in short, works on the data it receives very much as the sculptor works on his block of stone.
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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 instant field of the present is at all times what I call the ‘pure’ experience. It is only virtually or potentially either object or subject as yet.
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We hear the words we have spoken, feel our own blow as we give it, or read in the bystander’s eyes the success or failure of our conduct.
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The sovereign cure for worry is prayer.
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Since you make evil or good by your own thoughts, it is your ruling of your thoughts which proves to be your principal concern.
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To change ones life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly.
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The first lecture in psychology that I ever heard was the first I ever gave.
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Give your dreams all you’ve got, and you’ll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you.
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Men habitually use only a small part of the power which they actually possess.
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The strenuous life tastes better
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History is a bath of blood.
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The question of free will is insoluble on strictly psychological grounds.
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