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The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
William James
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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.
William James
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The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
William James in
Wisdom
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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.
William James
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Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
William James in
Life
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The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
William James in
Life
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Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.
William James in
Humor
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This life is worth living, we can say, since it is what we make it.
William James in
Life
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What every genuine philosopher (every genuine man, in fact) craves most is praise although the philosophers generally call it recognition!
William James
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The greatest use of a life is to spend it on something that will outlast it.
William James
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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.
William James
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Action seems to follow feeling, but really action 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.
William James
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We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.
William James
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Action may not bring happiness but there is no happiness without action.
William James
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