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• You can alter your life by altering the state of your mind.

  William James

  Mind, States

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• The sovereign cure for worry is prayer.

  William James

  Prayer, Philosophical, Worry

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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.

  William James

  Men, Rocks, Self

  William James, Robert D Richardson (2010). “The Heart of William James”, p.114, Harvard University Press

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• We don't laugh because we're happy - we're happy because we laugh.

  William James

  Happiness, Laughter, Laughing

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• A man of sense is never discouraged by difficulties; he redoubles his industry and his diligence, he perseveres and infallibly prevails at last.

  William James

  Motivational, Meaningful, Perseverance

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• We must not just patch and tinker with life. We must keep renewing it. Embrace novelty and uniqueness.

  William James

  Unique, Novelty, Embrace

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• The greatest discovery of the 20th Century is that our attitude of mind determines our quality of life, not circumstances.

  William James

  Attitude, Elderly, Discovery

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

  William James

  Lying, Misunderstood, Statistics

  'The Varieties of Religious Experience' (1902) lectures 14 and 15, p. 355

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• Anything you may hold firmly in your imagination can be yours.

  William James

  Imagination, May

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• Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second.

  William James

  Running, Dream, Inspirational Sports

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• The power to move the world is in the subconcious mind

  William James

  Moving, Mind, World

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• Success or failure depends more upon attitude than upon capacity successful men act as though they have accomplished or are enjoying something. Soon it becomes a reality. Act, look, feel successful, conduct yourself accordingly, and you will be amazed at the positive results.

  William James

  Positive, Success, Attitude

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• Of all the beautiful truths pertaining to the soul None is more gladdening or fruitful than to know You can regenerate and make yourself what you will.

  William James

  Beauty, Beautiful, Wisdom

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• To change one's life:
  a. Start immediately
  b. B. Do it flamboyantly
  c. No exceptions
  Never suffer an exception to occur till the new habit is securely rooted.

  William James

  Dream, Suffering, Habit

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• I don't sing because I'm happy; I'm happy because I sing.

  William James

  Happiness, Music, Philosophical

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• Tension is a habit. Relaxing is a habit. Bad habits can be broken, good habits formed.

  William James

  Funny, Broken, Habit

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• There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.

  William James

  Inspirational, Philosophical, Sadness

  Principles of Psychology (1890) vol. 1, ch. 4

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• Actions seems to follow feeling, but really actions and feeling go together; and by regulating the action, which is under the more direct control of the will, we can indirectly regulate the feeling, which is not. Thus the sovereign voluntary path to cheerfulness, if our cheerfulness be lost, is to sit up cheerfully and to act and speak as if cheerfulness were already there.

  William James

  Feelings, Together, Path

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• You can be an artist without visual images, a reader without eyes, a mass of erudition with a bad elementary memory. In almost any subject your passion for the subject will save you. If you only care enough for a result, you will almost certainly attain it. If you wish to be rich, you will be rich; if you wish to be learned, you will be learned; if you wish to be good, you will be good. Only you must, then, really wish these things, and wish them with exclusiveness, and not wish at the same time a hundred other incompatible things just as strongly.

  William James

  Memories, Eye, Passion

  William James (2008). “Talks to Teachers on Psychology: And to Students on Some of Life's Ideals”, p.108, Nuvision Pubns

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• Lives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or being.

  William James

  Inspirational, Life

  William James (1985). “The Varieties of Religious Experience”, p.256, Harvard University Press

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• The strenuous life tastes better

  William James

  Taste

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

  William James

  Inspirational, Change, Dream

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

  William James

  Positive, Discovery, Important

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• The mind, in short, works on the data it receives very much as the sculptor works on his block of stone.

  William James

  Block, Data, Mind

  William James (2012). “The Principles of Psychology”, p.288, Courier Corporation

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• Owing to the fact that all experience is a process, no point of view can ever be the last one

  William James

  Truth, Views, Owing

  William James (2013). “The Meaning of Truth”, p.48, Courier Corporation

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