So to feel brave, act as if we were brave, use all our will to that end…and a courage-fit will very likely replace the fit of fear.
WILLIAM JAMESWe forget that every good that is worth possessing must be paid for in strokes of daily effort.
More William James Quotes
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If you give appreciation to people, you win their goodwill. But more important than that, practicing this philosophy has made a different person of me.
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As long as there are postmen, life will have zest.
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… the intellect, everywhere invasive, shows everywhere its shallowing effect.
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When you have broken the reality into concepts you never can reconstruct it in its wholeness.
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The question of free will is insoluble on strictly psychological grounds.
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To change ones life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly.
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Religion . . . shall mean for us the feelings, acts and experiences of individual men in their solitude.
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Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.
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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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A paradise of inward tranquility seems to be faith’s usual result.
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Where quality is the thing sought after, the thing of supreme quality is cheap, whatever the price one has to pay for it.
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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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The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly.
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Each of us is in fact what he is almost exclusively by virtue of his imitative-ness.
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Most men have a good memory for facts connected with their own pursuits.
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