The greatest weapon we have to combat stress is the ability to choose our thoughts.
WILLIAM JAMESThe lunatic’s visions of horror are all drawn from the material of daily fact.
More William James Quotes
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Religious awe is the same organic thrill which we feel in a forest at twilight, or in a mountain gorge.
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No living person is sunk so low as not to be imitated by somebody.
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It is very important that teachers should realize the importance of habit.
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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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Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive.
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Everything which is demanded is by that fact a good.
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With no attempt there can be no failure; with no failure no humiliation.
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We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.
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You can alter your life by altering the state of your mind.
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That which is most personal, is most interesting.
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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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Earnestness means willingness to live with energy, though energy bring pain.
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There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man’s lack of faith in his true Self.
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Impulse without reason is enough, and reason without impulse is a poor makeshift.
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To consider hypotheses is surely always better than to dogmatize ins blaue hinein
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