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#1

“Wherever you are, it is your friends who make your world.”
― William James

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#2

“Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action. ”
― William James

tags: action, happiness, motivational, work

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#3

“The art of being wise is knowing what to overlook.”
― William James

tags: wisdom

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#4

“If you can change your mind, you can change your life.”
― William James

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#5

“The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.”
― William James

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#7

“Anything you may hold firmly in your imagination can be yours.”
― William James

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#8

“My experience is what I agree to attend to.”
― William James

tags: consciousness

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#9

“Philosophy is "an unusually stubborn attempt to think clearly.”
― William James

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#10

“Age is a very high price to pay for maturity.”
― WILLIAM JAMES

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#11

“Belief creates the actual fact.”
― William James

tags: faith

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#12

“Human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives.”
― William James

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#13

“A sense of humor is just common sense dancing.”
― William James

tags: common-sense, sense-of-humor

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#14

“When you have to make a choice and don't make it, that is in itself a choice.”
― William James

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#15

“Damn the Absolute!”
― William James

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#16

“None of us are ever who we were yesterday.”
― William James

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#17

“The greatest revolution of our generation is the discovery that human beings by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives”
― William James

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#18

“I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.”
― Marilyn Monroe

tags: attributed-no-source, best, life, love, misattributed-marilyn-monroe, mistakes, out-of-control, truth, worst

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#19

“Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.”
― William James

tags: actions, attributed, change

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#20

“The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.”
― William James

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#21

“Good-humor is a philosophic state of mind; it seems to say to Nature that we take her no more seriously than she takes us. I maintain that one should always talk of philosophy with a smile.”
― William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience

tags: humor, philosophy

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#22

“Begin to be now what you will be hereafter. ”
― William James

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#23

“This life is worth living, we can say, since it is what we make it.”
― William James

tags: life

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#24

“The strenuous life tastes better”
― William James

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#25

“Wisdom is seeing something in a non-habitual manner.”
― William James

tags: philosophy

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#27

“Psychology is the science of mental life”
― William James

tags: inspirational, life-and-living, psychology

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#28

“our experience is what we attend to”
― William James

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#29

“My thinking is first and last and always for the sake of my doing.”
― William James

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#30

“I will act as if what i do makes a difference.”
― William James

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#31

“Our science is a drop, our ignorance a sea.”
― William James, Is Life Worth Living?

tags: change, inspiration, science

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#32

“These then are my last words to you. Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.”
― William James

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