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Today is the birthday of William James (January 11, 1842 – August 26, 1910), psychologist and philosopher.

"Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact." - William James

"There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision." - William James

"We are spinning our own fates, good or evil, and never to be undone. Every smallest stroke of virtue or of vice leaves its never so little scar. ...Nothing we ever do is, in strict scientific literalness, wiped out." - William James

"Wherever you are it is your own friends who make your world." - William James

"Let any one try, I will not say to arrest, but to notice or attend to, the present moment of time. One of the most baffling experiences occurs. Where is it, this present? It has melted in our grasp, fled ere we could touch it, gone in the instant of becoming." - William James

"There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood by those who hear it." - William James

"Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being. They make use of a very small portion of their possible consciousness, and of their soul's resources in general, much like a man who, out of his whole bodily organism, should get into a habit of using and moving only his little finger. Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed." - William James

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