So our self-feeling in this world depends entirely on what we back ourselves to be and do.
WILLIAM JAMESTouch is the alpha and omega of affection.
More William James Quotes
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A sense of humor is just common sense dancing.
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No living person is sunk so low as not to be imitated by somebody.
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Asceticism may be a mere expression of organic hardihood, disgusted with too much ease.
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The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
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Philosophy lives in words, but truth and fact well up into our lives in ways that exceed verbal formulation.
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If you want to change your life, do it flamboyantly and start immediately.
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The discovery of the power of our thoughts will prove to be the most important discovery of our time
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The deepest hunger in human beings is the desire to be appreciated.
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Man can alter his life by altering his thinking.
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With mere good intentions hell is proverbially paved.
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But facts are facts, and if we only get enough of them theyare sure to combine.
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If merely ‘feeling good’ could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.
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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 great thing, then, in all education, is to make our nervous system our ally instead of our enemy.
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The minute a man ceases to grow, no matter what his years, that minute he begins to be old.
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