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

“Whenever two people meet, there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as the other person sees him, and each man as he really is.”
― William James

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

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

“Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.”
― William James

“I am done with great things and big things, great institutions and big success, and I am for those tiny, invisible molecular moral forces that work from individual to individual, creeping through the crannies of the world like so many rootlets, or like the capillary oozing of water, yet which if you give them time, will rend the hardest monuments of man's pride.”
― William James

“To perceive the world differently, we must be willing to change our belief system, let the past slip away, expand our sense of now, and dissolve the fear in our minds,”
― William James

“Our view of the world is truly shaped by what we decide to hear.”
― William James

“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

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

“If you believe that feeling bad or worrying long enough will change a past or future event, then you are residing on another planet with a different reality system.”
― William James

“We may be in the Universe as dogs and cats are in our libraries, seeing the books and hearing the conversation, but having no inkling of the
meaning of it all.”
― William James

“There are no differences but differences of degree between different degrees of difference and no difference.”
― William James

“Procrastination is attitude's natural assassin. There's nothing so fatiguing as an uncompleted task”
― William James

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