Focus on increasing service. Becoming great where you are. Pile in the wood. The heat will follow.
WILLIAM JAMESGreat emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.
More William James Quotes
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The drunken consciousness is one bit of the mystic consciousness, and our total opinion of it must find its place in our opinion of that larger whole.
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Tension is a habit. Relaxing is a habit. Bad habits can be broken, good habits formed.
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Our beliefs are really rules for action.
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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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Every individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony.
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A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.
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A man of sense is never discouraged by difficulties; he redoubles his industry and his diligence, he perseveres and infallibly prevails at last.
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Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system
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Time itself comes in drops.
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Men’s activities are occupied into ways — in grappling with external circumstances and in striving to set things at one in their own topsy-turvy mind.
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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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A new position of responsibility will usually show a man to be a far stronger creature than was supposed.
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Habit is a second nature, or rather, it is ‘ten times nature’.
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Pretend what we may, the whole man within us is at work when we form our philosophical opinions.
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Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being.
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