Touch is the alpha and omega of affection.
WILLIAM JAMESSo 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.
More William James Quotes
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Fear of life in one form or another is the great thing to exorcise.
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Everything which is demanded is by that fact a good.
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There can be no final truth in ethics any more than in physics, until the last man has had his experience and said his say.
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The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.
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Our faith is faith in someone else’s faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.
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Our view of the world is truly shaped by what we decide to hear.
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A man of sense is never discouraged by difficulties; he redoubles his industry and his diligence, he perseveres and infallibly prevails at last.
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Lives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or being.
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The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.
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In all primary school work the principle of multiple impressions is well recognized.
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The deepest human need is the need to be appreciated.
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In business for yourself, not by yourself.
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The true’to put it very briefly, is only the expedient in the way of our thinking, just as ‘the right’ is only the expedient in the way of our behaving.
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The education of attention would be an education par excellence
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To change ones life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly.
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