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• The sovereign cure for worry is prayer.

  William James

  Prayer, Philosophical, Worry

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

  William James

  Mind, States

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• Give your dreams all you've got, and you'll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you.

  William James

  Basketball, Dream, Perseverance

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• The minute a man ceases to grow, no matter what his years, that minute he begins to be old.

  William James

  Men, Years, Growth

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

  William James

  Happiness, Laughter, Laughing

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

  William James

  Moving, Mind, World

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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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• 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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• It is as important to cultivate your silence power as your word power.

  William James

  Silence, 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Our life is always deeper than we know, is always more divine than it seems, and hence we are able to survive degradations and despairs which otherwise must engulf us.

  William James

  Life, Survival, Despair

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• The strenuous life tastes better

  William James

  Taste

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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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• Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.

  William James

  Life, Humorous, Philosophical

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• To improve the golden moment of opportunity, and catch the good that is within our reach, is the great art of life.

  William James

  Life, Positive, Art

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• We and God have business with each other, and in opening ourselves to God's influence our deepest destiny is fulfilled.

  William James

  Destiny, Influence, Opening

  Dr. William James (2013). “The William James Reader”, p.739, Simon and Schuster

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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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