"Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does."
― William James
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"Anything you may hold firmly in your imagination can be yours."
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"Whenever two people meet, there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as the other person sees him, and each man as he really is."
― William James |
My thinking is first and last and always for the sake of my doing.
― William James
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"It would probably astound each of us beyond measure to be let into his neighbors mind and to find how different the scenery was there from that of his own."
― William James |
"The lunatic's visions of horror are all drawn from the material of daily fact. Our civilization is founded on the shambles, and every individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony."
― William James
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Whatever is beyond this narrow rational consciousness we mistake for our only consciousness.
― William James
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"There is something almost shocking in the notion of so chaste a function carrying this Kantian hurlyburly in her womb."
― William James
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"To change one’s life: 1. Start immediately. 2. Do it flamboyantly. 3. No exceptions."
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"Wherever you are, it is your friends who make your world."
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"How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness, is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure."
― William James
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"Religion is a monumental chapter in the history of human egotism."
― William James
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"If you wish to upset the law that all crows are black, you mustn't seek to show that no crows are; it is enough if you prove one single crow to be white."
― William James |
"As a rule reading fiction is as hard to me as trying to hit a target by hurling feathers at it. I need resistance to celebrate!"
― William James
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"Seize the very first possible opportunity to act on every resolution you make, and on every emotional prompting you may experience in the direction of the habits you aspire to gain."
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"An outree explanation, violating all our preconceptions, would never pass for a true account of a novelty. We should scratch round industriously till we found something less excentric."
― William James
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"Whenever you're in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is attitude."
― William James |
"Begin to be now what you will be hereafter."
― William James |
"There are no differences but differences of degree between different degrees of difference and no difference."
― William James |
"There are two lives, the natural and the spiritual, and we must lose the one before we can participate in the other."
― William James |
"Each of us literally chooses, by his way of attending to things, what sort of universe he shall appear to himself to inhabit."
― William James |
"The exclusive worship of the bitch-goddess sucess is our national disease."
― William James
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"These then are my last words to you. Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact."
― William James
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The sway of alcohol over mankind is unquestionably due to its power to stimulate the mystical faculties of human nature, usually crushed to earth by the cold facts and dry criticisms of the sober hour.
― William James
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