The emotions aren’t always immediately subject to reason, but they are always immediately subject to action.
WILLIAM JAMESAt bottom, the whole concern of religion is with the manner of our acceptance of the universe.
More William James Quotes
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New habits can be launched.
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As long as there are postmen, life will have zest.
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Procrastination is attitude’s natural assassin. There’s nothing so fatiguing as an uncompleted task
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All natural goods perish. Riches take wings; fame is a breath; love is a cheat; youth and health and pleasure vanish.
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Truth happens to an idea
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Effort is the one strictly undervalued and original contribution we make to this world.
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We forget that every good that is worth possessing must be paid for in strokes of daily effort.
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Experience, as we know, has a way of boiling over, and making us correct our present formulas.
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Every individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony.
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The instant field of the present is at all times what I call the ‘pure’ experience. It is only virtually or potentially either object or subject as yet.
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The power to move the world is in the subconcious mind
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The deepest human need is the need to be appreciated.
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A paradise of inward tranquility seems to be faith’s usual result.
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There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man’s lack of faith in his true Self.
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One of the greatest discoveries of our time is that a man can alter the state of their life by altering the state of their mind.
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