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William James

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ABOUT LIFE Never under any circumstances take a sleeping pill and a laxative on the same night.
ABOUT LIFE I always dream of being a millionaire like my uncle!... He's dreaming too.
ABOUT LIFE I dream of a better tomorrow, where chickens can cross the road and not be questioned about their mo...
ABOUT LIFE Without music, life is a journey through a desert.
PAT CONROY Life is a re-discovery.
BRIAN BLESSED For me, my life is a journey.
JAY ELECTRONICA Life is not a game. Still, in this life, we choose the games we live to play.
J.R. RIM Life is a risk.
CARMELO ANTHONY Being in love is the best thing in my life.
OLIVIA NEWTON-JOHN If you think that life is a celebration full of party poppers and merry go rounds it's not it's a ga...
GARY F EVANS... Life Is a Misconception.
DEYTH BANGER Life is a desire!
DEYTH BANGER The highest manifestation of life consists in this: that a being governs its own actions. A thing wh...
THOMAS AQUINAS The highest manifestation of life consists in this: that a being governs its own actions. A thing wh...
ST. THOMAS AQUINAS Life as we knew it is passing away, and something new is emerging to take its place, ... The Gift of...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON Life is a wretched gray Saturday, but it has to be lived through.
ANTHONY BURGESS Life is just more comfortable if you're honest and open about everything. I spent so many years bein...
ANTONY SHER There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.
OSCAR WILDE Purposefully dedicating time into developing yourself is one of the keys to being effective in life
SUNDAY ADELAJA It is so fascinating that when after a hard stressful day we calm our mind and release the stress fr...
GARY F EVANS... Life is a journey. When we stop, things don't go right.
POPE FRANCIS Life is a series of chapters, and one leads to another to another to another, and God knows what it ...
BOB BECKEL Life is nothing but a place to uplift one another.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Life is a school of probability.
WALTER BAGEHOT This life is a process of learning.
LAURYN HILL Life is a process. We are a process. The universe is a process.
ANNE WILSON SCHAEF Everybody in life is a chameleon.
MELANIE CHISHOLM Life is a grand party.
EZRA MILLER Life is a travelling to the edge of knowledge, then a leap taken.
D. H. LAWRENCE If I'm not thinking about one shit storm, I have to think about another.
KAREN M. MCMANUS Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought t...
MARCUS AURELIUS Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought t...
MARCUS AURELIUS Life is a journey and it's about growing and changing and coming to terms with who and what you ...
KELLY MCGILLIS My life is a struggle.
VOLTAIRE A novel is a static thing that one moves through; a play is a dynamic thing that moves past one.
KENNETH TYNAN Life is a marathon, not a sprint. It's about taking a bigger-picture approach.
IVANKA TRUMP Seldom is life one thing over another.
BENJAMIN L. STEWART One thing leads to another and another ...and there goes your life.
LORRIN L. LEE I think being in love with life is a key to eternal youth.
DOUG HUTCHISON One of the hardest things in life is having words in your heart that you can't utter. -James Earl J...
JAMES EARL JONES Life is just one damned thing after another.
ELBERT HUBBARD Escalating frustration with some parts of your life into being upset about all of your life is like ...
ALAN ROBERT NEAL This garden is your life. Of course, there are the occasional weeds—but more than anything, this g...
SETH ADAM SMITH A great photograph is a full expression of what one feels about what is being photographed in the de...
ANSEL ADAMS The thing about chameleoning your way through life is that it gets to where nothing is real.
JOHN GREEN The thing about chameleoning your way through life is that it gets to where nothing is real.
, AN ABUNDANCE OF KATHERINES, 2008 You need to live a life of service to make your life an effective one
SUNDAY ADELAJA Minority is about being an individual. It's like you have to sift through the darkness to find your ...
GREEN DAY It's one thing to read about the immortality of the soul, but it's another to see your own life flas...
EVELYN RODRIGUEZ One of the great things about being a director as a life choice is that it can never be mastered. Ev...
RON HOWARD Life is a mountain of solvable problems, and I enjoy that.
JAMES DYSON Life is a lot like skateboarding.
LIL WAYNE All life is a manifestation of the spirit, the manifestation of love.
MORIHEI UESHIBA For me, life is a bowl of cherries.
SISSY SPACEK Life is a right, not collateral or casual.
SUHEIR HAMMAD It is one thing being disciplined to plan and it is another thing being a disciple of great work. Be...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR Once something has outlived its usefulness in one area of life, its purpose for being in existence i...
GUY FINLEY An effective life is a selfless one
SUNDAY ADELAJA Nobody, as long as he moves about among the chaotic currents of life, is without trouble.
CARL JUNG Nobody, as long as he moves about among the chaotic currents of life, is without trouble.
CARL GUSTAV JUNG A religious life is a struggle and not a hymn.
MADAME DE STAEL Having a baby is one of the most wonderful things in your life, as well as the hardest thing in your...
NUNO BETTENCOURT The ocean has a life of its own. Its tides, whirlpools, currents and eddies are a testament to its c...
ANTHONY T. HINCKS To change one's life: 1. Starte immediately, 2. Do it flamboyantly, 3. No exceptions. -William Jame...
WILLIAM JAMES Life is a Long Journey between Human Being and Being Human. Let's take at least one step
each d...
DRISHTI BABLANI He would eventually have to pass through the forest, but he felt no fear. Of course - the forest was...
HARUKI MURAKAMI The source of all life and knowledge is in man and woman, and the source of all living is in the int...
D. H. (DAVID HERBERT) LAWRENCE Minority is about being an individual. It's like you have to sift through the darkness to find y...
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG In Western lands there is a distinct division between the religious and the secular life. There is o...
VIRCHAND GANDHI One thing can make you stop permanently in life and that is your own ignorance about your inner divi...
SEEMA BRAIN OPENERS I think it’s sad when someone is introduced by their occupation I just feel being a human being is...
CASSIO DE NOVA' Reading is one form of escape. Running for your life is another.
LEMONY SNICKET Life is not enjoyed by being busy over everything in general, but being passionate about one thing i...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination.
CARL ROGERS Be grateful for every moment and every breath.
TERESA COLLINS It's one thing to write [these plans] out, but it's another thing to actually perform them, because ...
IGNATIUS CARROLL Understanding your life purpose is vital to joy and dynamic participation in the world.
LAURIE BUCHANAN, PHD Traditional education is based on facts and figures and passing tests - not on a comprehension of th...
WILL SMITH Life is a game and true love is a trophy.
RUFUS WAINWRIGHT Being healthy is just letting life grow through your garbage.
CARL HAMMERSCHLAG Being healthy is just letting life grow through your garbage.
CARL A. HAMMERSCHLAG Life is what it is supposed to be, its just not always what you want it to be...
DANIEL GILMAN Life is like the sea. Its tides and currents sometimes take a man to distant shores that he never dr...
JOCELYN MURRAY I believe INTELLIGENCE is what you learn in school, KNOWLEDGE is what you gain in life, and WISDOM i...
MARIE MUHAMMAD Tremble: your whole life is a rehearsal for the moment you are in now.
JUDITH MALINA An effective life is a life of purpose
SUNDAY ADELAJA Life is not only about acquiring knowledge, it is about applying knowledge.
AMIT KALANTRI Life is good! It is only our thoughts, choices and actions towards the situations we meet in life ea...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Baseball life is a tough life on the family.
NOLAN RYAN Knowledge is going to make you stronger. Knowledge is going to let you control your life. Knowledge ...
AVERY BROOKS All of life is a foreign country.
JACK KEROUAC To the wise, life is a problem; to the fool, a solution.
MARCUS AURELIUS Life is a kind of struggle. Life is a sort of fight.
HAILE GEBRSELASSIE For all life is a dream, and dreams themselves are only dreams.
PEDRO CALDERON DE LA BARCA Life is a predicament which precedes death.
HENRY JAMES Maybe that's what life is... a wink of the eye and winking stars.
JACK KEROUAC Life is a series of waves to be embraced and overcome.
DANNY MEYER Life is a soccer field, don't you think?
SHAKIRA What do you want a meaning for? Life is a desire, not a meaning.
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WILLIAM JAMES Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.
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WILLIAM JAMES Success plus Self-esteem equals Pretensions.
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WILLIAM JAMES Act in earnest and you will become earnest in all you do.
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WILLIAM JAMES Only necessity understood, and bondage to the highest is identical with true freedom.
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WILLIAM JAMES To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.
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WILLIAM JAMES There is a voice inside which speaks and says: This is the real me!
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WILLIAM JAMES A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.
WILLIAM JAMES To give up pretensions is as blessed a relief as to get them gratified.
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WILLIAM JAMES The great use of a life is to spend for something that outlasts it.
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