It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.
WILLIAM JAMESThere is but one cause of human failure. And that is man’s lack of faith in his true Self.
More William James Quotes
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The most immutable barrier in nature is between one man’s thoughts and another’s.
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Man alone of all the creatures of earth can change his own pattern. Man alone is the architect of his own destiny.
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Objective evidence and certitude are doubtless very fine ideals to play with, but where on this moonlit and dream-visited planet are they found?
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Touch is the alpha and omega of affection.
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Focus on increasing service. Becoming great where you are. Pile in the wood. The heat will follow.
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Fear of life in one form or another is the great thing to exorcise.
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We hear the words we have spoken, feel our own blow as we give it, or read in the bystander’s eyes the success or failure of our conduct.
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Owing to the fact that all experience is a process, no point of view can ever be the last one
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Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.
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History is a bath of blood.
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The instant field of the present is at all times what I call the ‘pure’ experience. It is only virtually or potentially either object or subject as yet.
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The strenuous life tastes better
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In the matter of belief, we are all extreme conservatives.
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Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.
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The teachers of this country, one may say, have its future in their hands.
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