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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
Flamboyantly
Immediately
Start
Change
Life

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So with the man who has daily inured himself to habits of concentrated attention, energetic volition, and self-denial in unnecessary things. He will stand like a tower when everything rocks around him, and when his softer fellow-mortals are winnowed like chaff in the blast.
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We must be careful not to confuse data with the abstractions we use to analyse them.
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Why may we not be in the universe, as our dogs and cats are in our drawingrooms and libraries?
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The general law is that no mental modification ever occurs which is not accompanied or followed by a bodily change.
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If an unusual necessity forces us onward, a surprising thing occurs. The fatigue gets worse up to a certain point, when, gradually or suddenly, it passes away and we are fresher than before!
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My first act of free will shall be to believe in free will.
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As there is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood by those who hear it, so reasonable arguments, challenges to magnanimity, and appeals to sympathy or justice, are folly when we are dealing with human crocodiles and boa-constrictors.
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In business for yourself, not by yourself.
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There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.
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A new opinion counts as true just in proportion as it gratifies the individual's desire to assimilate the novel in his experience to his beliefs in stock
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True ideas lead us into useful verbal and conceptual quarters as well as directly up to useful sensible termini. They lead to consistency, stability and flowing human intercourse.
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The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
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The question of free will is insoluble on strictly psychological grounds.
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Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
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Deepest principle of human nature is to be appreciated.
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If it works, it's true.
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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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We are spinning our own fates, good or evil, and never to be undone. Every smallest stroke of virtue or of vice leaves its never so little scar. ...Nothing we ever do is, in strict scientific literalness, wiped out.
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Despair lames most people, but it wakes others fully up.
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