All of our life is but a mass of small habits – practical, emotional, intellectual and spiritual – that bear us irresistibly toward our destiny.
WILLIAM JAMESThe great thing, then, in all education, is to make our nervous system our ally instead of our enemy.
More William James Quotes
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True ideas are those that we can assimilate, validate, corroborate, and verify. False ideas are those that we cannot
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Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.
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Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
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What would be better for us to believe!’ This sounds very like a definition of truth
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To change ones life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly.
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Habit is thus the enormous fly-wheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. It alone is what keeps us all within the bounds of ordinance.
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With mere good intentions hell is proverbially paved.
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So to feel brave, act as if we were brave, use all our will to that end…and a courage-fit will very likely replace the fit of fear.
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Faith is synonymous with working hypothesis.
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Each of us is in fact what he is almost exclusively by virtue of his imitative-ness.
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We are stereotyped creatures, imitators and copiers of our past selves.
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Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.
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A new idea is first condemned as ridiculous and then dismissed as trivial, until finally, it becomes what everybody knows.
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Habit is a second nature, or rather, it is ‘ten times nature’.
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No bell in us tolls to let us know for certain when truth is in our grasp.
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