Tension is a habit. Relaxing is a habit. Bad habits can be broken, good habits formed.
WILLIAM JAMESThe lunatic’s visions of horror are all drawn from the material of daily fact.
More William James Quotes
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I myself believe that the evidence for God lies primarily in inner personal experiences.
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The deepest human need is the need to be appreciated.
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Democracy is still upon its trial. The civic genius of our people is its only bulwark.
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Lives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or being.
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Circumstance does not make me, it reveals me.
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[Religion is] the attempt to be in harmony with an unseen order of things.
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Deepest principle of human nature is to be appreciated.
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A sense of humor is just common sense dancing.
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Habit is a second nature, or rather, it is ‘ten times nature’.
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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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Our faith is faith in someone else’s faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.
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The mind, in short, works on the data it receives very much as the sculptor works on his block of stone.
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Earnestness means willingness to live with energy, though energy bring pain.
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Time itself comes in drops.
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One of the greatest discoveries of our time is that a man can alter the state of their life by altering the state of their mind.
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