An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.
WILLIAM JAMESIt is very important that teachers should realize the importance of habit.
More William James Quotes
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Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
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Our beliefs are really rules for action.
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Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.
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The world is all the richer for having a devil in it, so long as we keep our foot upon his neck.
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The deepest human need is the need to be appreciated.
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Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.
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Everything which is demanded is by that fact a good.
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The mind, in short, works on the data it receives very much as the sculptor works on his block of stone.
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Asceticism may be a mere expression of organic hardihood, disgusted with too much ease.
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[T]here is very little difference between one person and another, but what little difference ther eis, is very important.
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New habits can be launched.
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We want all our friends to tell us our bad qualities; it is only the particular ass that does so whom we can’t tolerate.
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As long as there are postmen, life will have zest.
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The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
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Man can change his life simply by changing his attitude.
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