"I don't sing because I'm happy; I'm happy…" — William James
"I don't sing because I'm happy; I'm happy because I sing."
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William James
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484 Quotes by William James
William James has 484 quotes on this site.
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I take it that no man is educated who has never dallied with the thought of suicide.
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Success plus Self-esteem equals Pretensions.
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To know psychology, therefore, is absolutely no guarantee that we shall be good teacher.
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There is a stream, a succession of states, or waves, or fields (or whatever you please to call them), of…
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Man, whatever else he may be, is primarily a practical being, whose mind is given him to aid in adapting…
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No reception without reaction, no impression without correlative expression, -this is the great maxim which the teacher ought never to…
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Habit is second nature, or rather . . . ten times nature.
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We must make automatic and habitual, as early as possible, as many useful actions as we can, and as carefully…
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It is astonishing how many mental operations we can explain when we have once grasped the principles of association
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The entire routine of our memorized acquisitions is a consequence of nothing but the Law of Contiguity. The words of…
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Any object not interesting in itself may become interesting through becoming associated with an object in which an interest already…
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An idea will infect another with its own emotional interest when they have become both associated together into any sort…
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Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be…
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The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all…
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Happiness depends upon ourselves.
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He who hath many friends hath none.
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What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.
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Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or…
— Aristotle
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Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.
— Aristotle
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Friendship is essentially a partnership.
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The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.
— Aristotle
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Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of…
— Aristotle
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It is by not always thinking of yourself, if you can manage it, that you might somehow be happy. Until…
— Richard Bach
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In order to live free and happily you must sacrifice boredom. It is not always an easy sacrifice.
— Richard Bach
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