Human beings are born into this little span of life of which the best thing is its friendship and intimacies, and soon their places will know them no more, and yet they leave their friendships and intimacies with no cultivation, to grow as they will by the roadside, expecting them to 'keep' by force of inertia. -William James

 

Human beings are born into this little span of life of which the best thing is its friendship and intimacies, and soon their places will know them no more, and yet they leave their friendships and intimacies with no cultivation, to grow as they will by the roadside, expecting them to 'keep' by force of inertia.


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The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.

William James

Man can alter his life by altering his thinking.

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The sovereign cure for worry is prayer.

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As a rule we disbelieve all the facts and theories for which we have no use.

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Human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives.

William James