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If you want to change your life, do it flamboyantly and start immediately.

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William James
Age: 68 †
Born: 1842
Born: January 11
Died: 1910
Died: August 26
Philosopher
Physician
Psychologist
University Teacher
W. James
Start
Change
Life
Flamboyantly
Immediately

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The sovereign voluntary path to cheerfulness, if our spontaneous cheerfulness be lost, is to sit up cheerfully, to look round cheerfully, and to act and speak as if cheerfulness were already there. If such conduct does not make you soon feel cheerful, nothing else on that occasion can.
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No living person is sunk so low as not to be imitated by somebody.
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Volition . . . takes place only when there are a number of conflicting systems of ideas, and depends on our having a complex field of consciousness.
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The amount of psychology which is necessary to all teachers need not be very great.
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Procrastination is attitude's natural assassin. There's nothing so fatiguing as an uncompleted task
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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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...as I apprehend the Buddhist doctrine of karma, I agree in principle with that.
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