William James Quotes
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Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
[Alter]
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Human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives.
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I believe there is no source of deception in the investigation of nature which can compare with a fixed belief that certain kinds of phenomena are impossible.
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I don't sing because I'm happy; I'm happy because I sing.
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I will act as if what I do makes a difference.
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If any organism fails to fulfill its potentialities, it becomes sick.
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If merely 'feeling good' could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.
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If the grace of God miraculously operates, it probably operates through the subliminal door.
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If this life be not a real fight, in which something is eternally gained for the universe by success, it is no better than a game of private theatricals from which one may withdraw at will. But it feels like a real fight.
[Life]
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If you believe that feeling bad or worrying long enough will change a past or future event, then you are residing on another planet with a different reality system.
[Change]
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If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.
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If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.
[Positive]
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Impulse without reason is not enough, and reason without impulse is a poor makeshift.
[Instincts]
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In business for yourself, not by yourself.
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In the deepest heart of all of us there is a corner in which the ultimate mystery of things works sadly.
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In the dim background of mind we know what we ought to be doing but somehow we cannot start.
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Individuality is founded in feeling; and the recesses of feeling, the darker, blinder strata of character, are the only places in the world in which we catch real fact in the making, and directly perceive how events happen, and how work is actually done.
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Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.
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It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all. And often enough our faith beforehand in an uncertified result is the only thing that makes the result come true.
[Risks]
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It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.
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