Just for today I will exercise my soul in three ways: I will do somebody a good turn and not get found out. I will do at least two things I don’t want to do
WILLIAM JAMESAn act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.
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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For the moment, what we attend to is reality.
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Truth is something that happens to an idea.
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Procrastination is attitude’s natural assassin. There’s nothing so fatiguing as an uncompleted task
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That which is most personal, is most interesting.
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The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.
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Footnotes — little dogs yapping at the heels of the text
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So it is with children who learn to read fluently and well: They begin to take flight into whole new worlds as effortlessly as young birds take to the sky.
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The teachers of this country, one may say, have its future in their hands.
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The deepest human need is the need to be appreciated.
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The sovereign cure for worry is prayer.
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New habits can be launched.
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The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly.
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Language is the most imperfect and expensive means yet discovered for communicating thought.
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Since you make evil or good by your own thoughts, it is your ruling of your thoughts which proves to be your principal concern.
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