Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day.
WILLIAM JAMESTo study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.
More William James Quotes
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The general law is that no mental modification ever occurs which is not accompanied or followed by a bodily change.
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The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
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It is very important that teachers should realize the importance of habit.
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What would be better for us to believe!’ This sounds very like a definition of truth
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New habits can be launched.
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The deepest hunger in human beings is the desire to be appreciated.
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There’s nothing so absurd that if you repeat it often enough, people will believe it.
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When you have broken the reality into concepts you never can reconstruct it in its wholeness.
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Give your dreams all you’ve got, and you’ll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you.
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We are thinking beings, and we cannot exclude the intellect from participating in any of our functions.
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The deepest longing in the human breast is the desire for appreciation.
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It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.
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Our beliefs and our attention are the same fact.
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The first lecture in psychology that I ever heard was the first I ever gave.
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The sovereign cure for worry is prayer.
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