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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.


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WILLIAM JAMES First, you know, a new theory is attacked as absurd; then it is admitted to be true, but obvious and...
WILLIAM JAMES Human beings are born into this little span of life of which the best thing is its friendships and i...
WILLIAM JAMES The university most worthy of rational admiration is that one in which your lonely thinker can feel ...
WILLIAM JAMES The first thing to learn in intercourse with others is non-interference with their own peculiar ways...
WILLIAM JAMES Cramming seeks to stamp things in by intense application immediately before the ordeal. But a thing ...
WILLIAM JAMES Never suffer an exception to occur till the new habit is securely rooted in your life. Each lapse is...
WILLIAM JAMES The highest flights of charity, devotion, trust, patience, bravery to which the wings of human natur...
WILLIAM JAMES An unlearned carpenter of my acquaintance once said in my hearing: 'There is very little difference ...
WILLIAM JAMES Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive, along ...
WILLIAM JAMES The greatest use of a life is to spend it on something that will outlast it.
WILLIAM JAMES