How many of us persist in a precipitate course which, but for a moment of heedlessness we might … - William James

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Being perfect is being flawed, accepting it, and never letting it make you feel less than your best.

William James

How many of us persist in a precipitate course which, but for a moment of heedlessness we might never have entered upon, simply because we hate to change our minds.

Course, Hate, Might, Mind, Minds, Precipitate

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You can be an artist without visual images, a reader without eyes, a mass of erudition with a bad elementary memory. In almost any subject your passion for the subject will save you. If you only care enough for a result, you will almost certainly attain it. If you wish to be rich, you will be rich; if you wish to be learned, you will be learned; if you wish to be good, you will be good. Only you must, then, really wish these things, and wish them with exclusiveness, and not wish at the same time a hundred other incompatible things just as strongly.

Artist, Attain, Eye, Images, Memories, Passion

I don't sing because I'm happy; I'm happy because I sing.

Happiness, Happy, Music, Philosophical, Sing

The transition from tenseness, self-responsibility, and worry, to equanimity, receptivity, and peace, is the most wonderful of all those shiftings of inner equilibrium, those changes of personal centre of energy, which I have analyzed so often; and the chief wonder of it is that it so often comes about, not by doing, but by simply relaxing and throwing the burden down.

Chief, Personal, Relaxing, Responsibility, Self, Worry

The great thing, then, in all education, is to make our nervous system our ally instead of our enemy.

Allies, Ally, Education, Enemy, Make

The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.

Altering, Attitudes, Discovery, Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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