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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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A great idea goes through three stages on its way to acceptance: 1) it is dismissed as nonsense, 2) it is acknowledged as true, but insignificant, 3) finally, it is seen to be important, but not really anything new.
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... no bell in us tolls to let us know for certain when truth is in our grasp.
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There can be no difference anywhere that does not make a difference somewhere.
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Our errors are surely not such awfully solemn things. In a world where we are so certain to incur them in spite of all our caution, a certain lightness of heart seems healthier than this excessive nervousness on their behalf.
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The great thing, then, in all education, is to make our nervous system our ally instead of our enemy.
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Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
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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.
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No living person is sunk so low as not to be imitated by somebody.
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The perfect stillness of the night was thrilled by a more solemn silence. The darkness held a presence that was all the more felt because it was not seen. I could not any more have doubted that HE was there than that I was. Indeed, I felt myself to be, if possible, the less real of the two.
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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.
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The first thing that intellect does with an object is to class it with something else.
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Touch is the alpha and omega of affection.
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All our scientific and philosophic ideals are altars to unknown gods.
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There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.
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Woe to him whose beliefs play fast and loose with the order which realities follow in his experience they will lead him nowhere or else make false connections
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New habits can be launched.
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Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second.
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With no attempt there can be no failure with no failure no humiliation.
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Our belief at the beginning of a doubtful undertaking is the one thing that assures the successful outcome of any venture.
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How can the moribund old man reason back to himself the romance, the mystery, the imminence of great things with which our old earth tingled for him in the days when he was young and well?
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