So our self-feeling in this world depends entirely on what we back ourselves to be and do.
WILLIAM JAMESThe teachers of this country, one may say, have its future in their hands.
More William James Quotes
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The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
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Religious awe is the same organic thrill which we feel in a forest at twilight, or in a mountain gorge.
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The sovereign cure for worry is prayer.
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Earnestness means willingness to live with energy, though energy bring pain.
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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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Truth happens to an idea
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It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.
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Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being.
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It seems the natural thing for us to listen whilst the Europeans talk.
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Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.
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Modern man . . . has not ceased to be credulous . . . the need to believe haunts him.
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Effort is the one strictly undervalued and original contribution we make to this world.
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The power to move the world is in the subconcious mind
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There can be no difference anywhere that does not make a difference somewhere.
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The most immutable barrier in nature is between one man’s thoughts and another’s.
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