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The minute a man ceases to grow, no matter what his years, that minute he begins to be old.

William James

It is very important that teachers should realize the importance of habit.
WILLIAM JAMES

Important Realizing Teacher
The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.
WILLIAM JAMES

Fear Happiness Stress
Men’s activities are occupied into ways — in grappling with external circumstances and in striving to set things at one in their own topsy-turvy mind.
WILLIAM JAMES

Men Mind Way
Facts’ are the bounds of human knowledge, set for it, not by it.
WILLIAM JAMES

Facts Knowledge Science
It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.
WILLIAM JAMES

Change Life Positive
The education of attention would be an education par excellence
WILLIAM JAMES

Attention Education Excellence
We with our lives are like islands in the sea, or like trees in the forest… But the trees also commingle their roots in the darkness underground.
WILLIAM JAMES

Islands Roots Sea Underground
The greatest weapon we have to combat stress is the ability to choose our thoughts.
WILLIAM JAMES

Combat Stress Weapons
I don’t sing because I’m happy; I’m happy because I sing.
WILLIAM JAMES

Happiness Music Philosophical
Religion is a monumental chapter in the history of human egotism.
WILLIAM JAMES

Chapters Egotism Religion
The most immutable barrier in nature is between one man’s thoughts and another’s.
WILLIAM JAMES

Barriers Immutable Men
You may not get everything you dream about, but you will never get anything you don’t dream about.
WILLIAM JAMES

Anything Dream Everything May
In the matter of belief, we are all extreme conservatives.
WILLIAM JAMES

Belief Extremes Matter
Objective evidence and certitude are doubtless very fine ideals to play with, but where on this moonlit and dream-visited planet are they found?
WILLIAM JAMES

Dream Play Science
Since you make evil or good by your own thoughts, it is your ruling of your thoughts which proves to be your principal concern.
WILLIAM JAMES

Evil Prove Ruling
The emotions aren’t always immediately subject to reason, but they are always immediately subject to action.
WILLIAM JAMES

Action Emotional Feelings

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