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If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.

William James

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William James
Age: 68 †
Born: 1842
Born: January 11
Died: 1910
Died: August 26
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Mankind's common instinct for reality has always held the world to be essentially a theatre for heroism.
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Philosophy lives in words, but truth and fact well up into our lives in ways that exceed verbal formulation. There is in the living act of perception always something that glimmers and twinkles and will not be caught, and for which reflection comes too late.
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Theory must mediate between all previous truths and certain new experiences
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Humanism . . . is not a single hypothesis or theorem, and it dwells on no new facts. It is rather a slow shifting in the philosophic perspective, making things appear as from a new centre of interest or point of sight.
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Serious development of the personality begins at the closet door.
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The lunatic's visions of horror are all drawn from the material of daily fact.
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Our normal waking consciousness, rational consciousness as we call it, is but one special type of consciousness, whilst all about it, parted from it by the filmiest of screens, there lie potential forms of consciousness entirely different.
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Need and struggle are what excite and inspire us our hour of triumph is what brings the void.
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The first thing to learn in intercourse with others is non-interference with their own particular ways of being happy, provided those ways do not assume to interfere by violence with ours.
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If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.
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We have nothing to do but to receive, resting absolutely upon the merit, power, and love of our Redeemer.
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A man with no philosophy in him is the most inauspicious and unprofitable of all possible social mates.
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Events are influenced by our very great desires.
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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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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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To spend life for something which outlasts it.
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The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.
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Out of time we cut 'days' and 'nights', 'summers' and 'winters.' We say what, each part of the sensible continuum is, and all these abstract whats are concepts. The intelletual life of man consists almost wholly in his substitution of a conceptual order for the persceptual order in which his experience originally comes.
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