What would be better for us to believe!’ This sounds very like a definition of truth
WILLIAM JAMESThe sovereign cure for worry is prayer.
More William James Quotes
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Our beliefs and our attention are the same fact.
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Where quality is the thing sought after, the thing of supreme quality is cheap, whatever the price one has to pay for it.
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Just for today I will exercise my soul in three ways: I will do somebody a good turn and not get found out. I will do at least two things I don’t want to do
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There can be no final truth in ethics any more than in physics, until the last man has had his experience and said his say.
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Both thought and feeling are determinants of conduct, and the same conduct may be determined either by feeling or by thought.
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Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system
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Everything which is demanded is by that fact a good.
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Religious awe is the same organic thrill which we feel in a forest at twilight, or in a mountain gorge.
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The impulse to take life strivingly is indestructible in the race.
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We must be careful not to confuse data with the abstractions we use to analyse them.
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When once a decision is reached and execution is the order of the day, dismiss absolutely all responsibility and care about the outcome.
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Organization and method mean much, but contagious human characters mean more in a university.
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To change ones life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly.
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If you want to change your life, do it flamboyantly and start immediately.
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It is very important that teachers should realize the importance of habit.
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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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The world is all the richer for having a devil in it, so long as we keep our foot upon his neck.
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I myself believe that the evidence for God lies primarily in inner personal experiences.
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All of our life is but a mass of small habits – practical, emotional, intellectual and spiritual – that bear us irresistibly toward our destiny.
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Where is it, this present? It has melted in our grasp, fled ere we could touch it, gone in the instant of becoming.
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The sovereign cure for worry is prayer.
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The greatest weapon we have to combat stress is the ability to choose our thoughts.
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He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed.
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Let everything you do be done as if it makes a difference.
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Most men have a good memory for facts connected with their own pursuits.
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There can be no existence of evil as a force to the healthy-minded individual.
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