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  1. www.azquotes.com › author › 7341-William_JamesTOP 25 QUOTES BY WILLIAM JAMES (of 716) | A-Z Quotes

    Thoughts become perception, perception becomes reality. Alter your thoughts, alter your reality. William James. Reality, Perception. 110 Copy quote. The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another. William James. Happiness, Fear, Stress. 133 Copy quote.

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    • “Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action. ” ― William James.
    • “The art of being wise is knowing what to overlook.” ― William James.
    • “We are like islands in the sea, separate on the surface but connected in the deep.” ― William James.
    • “A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.” ― William James.

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    • The greatest use of a life is to spend it on something that will outlast it. William James.
    • The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes. William James.
    • Pessimism leads to weakness, optimism to power. William James.
    • The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another. William James.

  5. www.verywellmind.com › william-james-quotes-2795535Psychologist William James Quotes - Verywell Mind

    • On Thinking
    • On Success, Failure, and Acceptance
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    "A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices." "Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing." "Compared with what we ought to be, we are half awake." 1. From "The Energies of Men" (1907) "The art of being wise is th...

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    "Be willing to have it so. Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune." "Our errors are surely not such awfully solemn things. In a world where we are so certain to incur them in spite of all our caution, a certain lightness of heart seems healthier than this excessive nervousness on their beh...

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    "Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice." "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." 1. From The Varieties of Religious Experience(1902) "If merely 'feeling good' could decide, dru...

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    Mar 27, 2024 · Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact. William James ( 11 January 1842 – 26 August 1910) was a pioneering American psychologist and philosopher.

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    Sourced quotations by the American Psychologist William James (1842 — 1910) about life, truth and man. Enjoy the best William James quotes and picture quotes!

  10. www.goodreads.com › work › quotesThe Varieties of Religious Experience Quotes by William James

    “Were one asked to characterize the life of religion in the broadest and most general terms possible, one might say that it consists of the belief that there is an unseen order, and our supreme good lies in harmoniously adjusting ourselves thereto.” ― William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience. 31 likes.

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