The general law is that no mental modification ever occurs which is not accompanied or followed by a bodily change.
WILLIAM JAMESThe strenuous life tastes better
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Man can alter his life by altering his thinking.
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Fear of life in one form or another is the great thing to exorcise.
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The education of attention would be an education par excellence
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Owing to the fact that all experience is a process, no point of view can ever be the last one
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It is very important that teachers should realize the importance of habit.
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New habits can be launched.
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Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.
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Let everything you do be done as if it makes a difference.
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Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system
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Circumstance does not make me, it reveals me.
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The lunatic’s visions of horror are all drawn from the material of daily fact.
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Asceticism may be a mere expression of organic hardihood, disgusted with too much ease.
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Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
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No bell in us tolls to let us know for certain when truth is in our grasp.
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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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Touch is the alpha and omega of affection.
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True to her inveterate habit, rationalism reverts to ‘principles,’ and thinks that when an abstraction once is named, we own an oracular solution.
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Deepest principle of human nature is to be appreciated.
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A new position of responsibility will usually show a man to be a far stronger creature than was supposed.
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The teachers of this country, one may say, have its future in their hands.
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Truth is something that happens to an idea.
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Where is it, this present? It has melted in our grasp, fled ere we could touch it, gone in the instant of becoming.
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How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.
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Most unhappiness is caused because people listen to themselves… instead of talking to themselves.
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If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.
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