Both thought and feeling are determinants of conduct, and the same conduct may be determined either by feeling or by thought.
WILLIAM JAMESEverybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.
More William James Quotes
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Deepest principle of human nature is to be appreciated.
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Once you accept an idea, it’s an idea whose time has come.
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The discovery of the power of our thoughts will prove to be the most important discovery of our time
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Footnotes — little dogs yapping at the heels of the text
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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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If you want to change your life, do it flamboyantly and start immediately.
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Experience, as we know, has a way of boiling over, and making us correct our present formulas.
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Habit is a second nature, or rather, it is ‘ten times nature’.
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The God of many men is little more than their court of appeal against the damnatory judgment passed on their failures by the opinion of the world.
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Tension is a habit. Relaxing is a habit. Bad habits can be broken, good habits formed.
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No living person is sunk so low as not to be imitated by somebody.
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Genius… means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.
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We are proud of a human nature that could be so passionately extreme, but we shrink from advising others to follow the example.
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Men habitually use only a small part of the power which they actually possess.
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Organization and method mean much, but contagious human characters mean more in a university.
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Individuality is founded in feeling
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It is art that makes life, and I know of no substitute whatsoever for the force and beauty of its process.
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That which is most personal, is most interesting.
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The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.
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I myself believe that the evidence for God lies primarily in inner personal experiences.
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The greatest weapon we have to combat stress is the ability to choose our thoughts.
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So it is with children who learn to read fluently and well: They begin to take flight into whole new worlds as effortlessly as young birds take to the sky.
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A paradise of inward tranquility seems to be faith’s usual result.
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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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We may be in the Universe as dogs and cats are in our libraries, seeing the books and hearing the conversation, but having no inkling of the meaning of it all.
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The power to move the world is in the subconcious mind
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