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The sovereign cure for worry is prayer.
William James
Cure
Prayer
Worry
The sway of alcohol over mankind is unquestionably due to its power to stimulate the mystical faculties of human nature, usually crushed to earth by the cold facts and dry criticisms of the sober hour.
William James
Power
Nature
Alcohol
Earth
Facts
Human nature
Mankind
The world is all the richer for having a devil in it, so long as we keep our foot upon his neck.
William James
Devil
World
The world we see that seems so insane is the result of a belief system that is not working. To perceive the world differently, we must be willing to change our belief system, let the past slip away, expand our sense of now, and dissolve the fear in our minds.
William James
Change
Fear
Belief
Now
Past
Result
Sense
World
There is an organic affinity between joyousness and tenderness, and their companionship in the saintly life need in no way occasion surprise.
William James
Life
Companionship
Tenderness
There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man's lack of faith in his true Self.
William James
Faith
Failure
Cause
Man
Self
There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.
William James
Being
Indecision
Nothing
The greatest use of a life is to spend it on something that will outlast it.
William James
Life
Will