Tag: 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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An idea, to be suggestive, must come to the individual with the force of revelation.
William James
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The sovereign cure for worry is prayer.
William James
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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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Our faith is faith in someone else’s faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.
William James
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Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
William James
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The hell to be endured hereafter, of which theology tells, is no worse than the hell we make for ourselves in this world by habitually fashioned our characters in the wrong way.
William James
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I don’t sing because I’m happy; I’m happy because I sing.
William James
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The god whom science recognizes must be a God of universal laws exclusively, a God who does a wholesale, not a retail business. He cannot accommodate his processes to the convenience of individuals.
William James
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We don’t laugh because we’re happy – we’re happy because we laugh.
William James