Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being.
WILLIAM JAMESIt is very important that teachers should realize the importance of habit.
More William James Quotes
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Individuality is founded in feeling
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Touch is the alpha and omega of affection.
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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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The deepest hunger in human beings is the desire to be appreciated.
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To some of us the thought of God is like a sort of quiet music playing in the background of the mind.
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I don’t sing because I’m happy; I’m happy because I sing.
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Earnestness means willingness to live with energy, though energy bring pain.
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All natural goods perish. Riches take wings; fame is a breath; love is a cheat; youth and health and pleasure vanish.
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… the intellect, everywhere invasive, shows everywhere its shallowing effect.
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Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.
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We are stereotyped creatures, imitators and copiers of our past selves.
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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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The true’to put it very briefly, is only the expedient in the way of our thinking, just as ‘the right’ is only the expedient in the way of our behaving.
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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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The minute a man ceases to grow, no matter what his years, that minute he begins to be old.
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