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Many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.
William James
A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.
William James
Man can alter his life by altering his thinking.
William James
Action may not bring happiness but there is no happiness without action.
William James
How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.
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.
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.
William James
There is an organic affinity between joyousness and tenderness, and their companionship in the saintly life need in no way occasion surprise.
William James
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
The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.
William James