Lives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or being.
WILLIAM JAMESTo change ones life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly.
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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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Organization and method mean much, but contagious human characters mean more in a university.
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The God of many men is little more than their court of appeal against the damnatory judgment passed on their failures by the opinion of the world.
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A sense of humor is just common sense dancing.
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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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The emotions aren’t always immediately subject to reason, but they are always immediately subject to action.
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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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As long as there are postmen, life will have zest.
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Pretend what we may, the whole man within us is at work when we form our philosophical opinions.
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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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Man can change his life simply by changing his attitude.
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There’s nothing so absurd that if you repeat it often enough, people will believe it.
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Genius… means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.
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Circumstance does not make me, it reveals me.
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If you want to change your life, do it flamboyantly and start immediately.
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