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We are spinning our own fates...

We are spinning our own fates, good or evil, never to be undone.

William James 820 quotes

The discovery of the power of...

The discovery of the power of our thoughts will prove to be the most important discovery of our time

William James 820 quotes

Seize the very first possible...

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.

William James 820 quotes

Every time a resolve or a fin...

Every time a resolve or a fine glow of feeling evaporates without bearing practical fruit is worse than a chance lost; it works to hinder future resolutions and emotions from taking the normal path of discharge. There is no more contemptible type of human character than that of the nerveless sentimentalist and dreamer, who spends his life in a weltering sea of sensibility and emotion, but who never does a manly concrete deed.

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If you only care enough for a...

If you only care enough for a result, you will almost certainly attain it. Only you must, then, really wish these things, and wish them exclusively, and not wish at the same time a hundred other incompatible things just as strongly.

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This overcoming of all the us...

This overcoming of all the usual barriers between the individual and the Absolute is the great mystic achievement. In mystic states we both become one with the Absolute and we become aware of our oneness. This is the everlasting and triumphant mystical tradition, hardly altered by differences of clime or creed.

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The attitude of unhappiness i...

The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly. What can be more base and unworthy than the pining, puling, mumping mood, no matter by what outward ills it may have been engendered? What is more injurious to others? What less helpful as a way out of the difficulty? It but fastens and perpetuates the trouble which occasioned it, and increases the total evil of the situation. At all costs, then, we ought to reduce the sway of that mood; we ought to scout it in ourselves and others, and never show it tolerance.

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There are no differences but ...

There are no differences but differences of degree between different degrees of difference and no difference.

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Most people live, whether phy...

Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being. They make very small use 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 little finger.

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As the art of reading (after ...

As the art of reading (after a certain stage in one's education) isthe art of skipping, so the art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.

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There is no worse lie than a ...

There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood bu those who hear it.

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A new idea is first condemned...

A new idea is first condemned as ridiculous and then dismissed as trivial, until finally, it becomes what everybody knows.

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The true is the name of whate...

The true is the name of whatever proves itself to be good in the way of belief, and good, too, for definite, assignable reasons.

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We must make automatic and ha...

We must make automatic and habitual, as early as possible, as many useful actions as we can...in the acquisition of a new habit, we must take car to launch ourselves with as strong and decided initiative as possible. Never suffer an exception to occur till the new habit is securely rooted in your life.

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Belief is desecrated when giv...

Belief is desecrated when given to unproved and unquestioned statements for the solace and private pleasure of the believer . . . It is wrong always, everywhere, and for every one, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.

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There is a voice inside which...

There is a voice inside which speaks and says, "This is the real me!"

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Evil is a disease; and worry ...

Evil is a disease; and worry over disease is itself an additional form of disease, which only adds to the original complaint.

William James 820 quotes

Whilst part of what we percei...

Whilst part of what we perceive comes through our senses from the object before us, another part (and it may be the larger part) always comes out of our own mind.

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Happiness comes of the capaci...

Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed. which give happiness. Thomas Jefferson We never enjoy perfect happiness; our most fortunate successes are mingled with sadness; some anxieties always perplex the reality of our satisfaction.

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If you give appreciation to p...

If you give appreciation to people, you win their goodwill. But more important than that, practicing this philosophy has made a different person of me.

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