We are spinning our own fates, good or evil, and never to be undone. Every smallest stroke of virtue or of vice leaves its never-so-little scar.
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WILLIAM JAMES Need and struggle are what excite and inspire us.
WILLIAM JAMES Do every day or two something for no other reason than you would rather not do it, so that when the ...
WILLIAM JAMES To change one's life: 1. Starte immediately, 2. Do it flamboyantly, 3. No exceptions. -William Jame...
WILLIAM JAMES To change ones life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly.
WILLIAM JAMES Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and
vitally alive, along ...
WILLIAM JAMES Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible
WILLIAM JAMES Ninety-nine hundredths or, possibly, nine hundred and ninety-nine thousandths of our activity is pur...
WILLIAM JAMES No human being ever learns to live until he has awakened to the dormant powers within him
WILLIAM JAMES The history of philosophy is to a great extent that of a certain clash of human temperaments.
WILLIAM JAMES Tell him to live by yes and no -- yes to everything good, no to everything bad.
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