William James

Quote link. Other quotes about: first: "Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune."
Quote link.: "Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does."
Quote link. Other quotes about: prejudices thinking think people man: "A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely re-arranging their prejudices."
Quote link.: "An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible."
Quote link. Other quotes about: life living belief fact: "Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact."
Quote link.: "Circumstance does not make me, it reveals me."
Quote link. Other quotes about: little: "Genius means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way."
Quote link. Other quotes about: happiness time men fact: "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."
Quote link. Other quotes about: live change mind: "Human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives."
Quote link. Other quotes about: work human world man plans success: "I am done with great things and big plans, great institutions and big success. I am for those tiny, invisible loving human forces that work from individual to individual, creeping through the crannies of the world like so many rootlets, or like the capil"
Quote link.: "If you want a quality, act as if you already had it. Try the 'as if' technique."
Quote link.: "Let everything you do be done as if it makes a difference."
Quote link. Other quotes about: physical small live people man rest soul: "Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being. They make use of a very small portion of their possible consciousness, and of their soul's resources in general, much like a man who, out of his whole bodily organism, should get into a habit of using and moving only his lttle finger. Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed."
Quote link. Other quotes about: truth soul: "Of all the beautiful truths pertaining to the soul None is more gladdening or fruitful than to know You can regenerate and make yourself what you will."
Quote link. Other quotes about: freedom: "Only necessity understood, and bondage to the highest is identical with true freedom."
Quote link. Other quotes about: success belief: "Our belief at the beginning of a doubtful undertaking is the one thing that assures the successful outcome of any venture."
Quote link. Other quotes about: prejudices old little man belief mind grow: "Our minds thus grow in spots and like grease spots, the spots spread. But we let them spread as little as possible we keep unaltered as much of our old knowledge, as many of our old prejudices and beliefs, as we can."
Quote link. Other quotes about: human history: "Religion is the monumental chapter in the history of human egotism."
Quote link. Other quotes about: man life: "Religion, whatever it is, is a man's total reaction upon life."
Quote link. Other quotes about: art wise: "The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook."
Quote link. Other quotes about: human nature deep: "The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated."
Quote link.: "The essence of genius is to know what to overlook."
Quote link. Other quotes about: human life discover mind: "The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes of mind."
Quote link. Other quotes about: something life: "The greatest use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it."
Quote link. Other quotes about: something life: "The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it."
Quote link. Other quotes about: time man: "The man whose acquisitions stick is the man who is always achieving and advancing whilst his neighbors, spending most of their time in relearning what they once knew but have forgotten, simply hold their own."
Quote link. Other quotes about: human nothing: "There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision."
Quote link. Other quotes about: truth worse: "There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood by those who hear it."
Quote link.: "There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers."
Quote link. Other quotes about: hours day life: "The stream of thought flows on but most of its segments fall into the bottomless abyss of oblivion. Of some, no memory survives the instant of their passage. Of others, it is confined to a few moments, hours or days. Others, again, leave vestiges which are indestructible, and by means of which they may be recalled as long as life endures."
Quote link. Other quotes about: life living sin: "This life is worth living, we can say, since it is what we make it."
Quote link. Other quotes about: truth people important: "When a thing is new, people say 'It is not true.' Later, when its truth becomes obvious, they say 'It is not important.' Finally, when its importance cannot be denied, they say 'Anyway, it is not new.'"

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