Touch is the alpha and omega of affection.
WILLIAM JAMESWith no attempt there can be no failure; with no failure no humiliation.
More William James Quotes
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If merely ‘feeling good’ could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.
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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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Asceticism may be a mere expression of organic hardihood, disgusted with too much ease.
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I don’t sing because I’m happy; I’m happy because I sing.
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Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day.
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On pragmatistic principles, if the hypothesis of God works satisfactorily in the widest sense of the word, it is true.
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Truth, as any dictionary will tell you, is a property of certain of our ideas. It means their agreement, as falsity means their disagreement, with reality.
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Focus on increasing service. Becoming great where you are. Pile in the wood. The heat will follow.
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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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It seems the natural thing for us to listen whilst the Europeans talk.
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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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Individuality is founded in feeling
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In the matter of belief, we are all extreme conservatives.
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The most immutable barrier in nature is between one man’s thoughts and another’s.
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Objective evidence and certitude are doubtless very fine ideals to play with, but where on this moonlit and dream-visited planet are they found?
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