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Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
Written by William James
The greatest use of a life is to spend it on something that will outlast it.
Written by William James
The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.
Written by William James
Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.
Written by William James
Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second.
Written by William James
When you have to make a choice and don't make it, that is in itself a choice.
Written by William James
The greatest enemy of any one of our truths may be the rest of our truths.
Written by William James
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
Written by William James
A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.
Written by William James
Man can alter his life by altering his thinking.
Written by William James
To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.
Written by William James
The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
Written by William James
Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.
Written by William James
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.
Written by William James
Whenever you're in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is attitude.
Written by William James
In business for yourself, not by yourself.
Written by William James
Genius... means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.
Written by William James
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.
Written by William James
Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.
Written by William James
The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.
Written by William James
To change ones life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly.
Written by William James
Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.
Written by William James
The sway of alcohol over mankind is unquestionably due to its power to stimulate the mystical faculties of human nature, usually crushed to earth by the cold facts and dry criticisms of the sober hour.
Written by William James
Compared to what we ought to be, we are half awake.
Written by William James
The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.
Written by William James
An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.
Written by William James
One hearty laugh together will bring enemies into a closer communion of heart than hours spent on both sides in inward wrestling with the mental demon of uncharitable feeling.
Written by William James
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.
Written by William James
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.
Written by William James
To spend life for something which outlasts it.
Written by William James

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