New habits can be launched.
WILLIAM JAMESSo to feel brave, act as if we were brave, use all our will to that end…and a courage-fit will very likely replace the fit of fear.
More William James Quotes
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Tension is a habit. Relaxing is a habit. Bad habits can be broken, good habits formed.
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We are stereotyped creatures, imitators and copiers of our past selves.
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Just for today I will exercise my soul in three ways: I will do somebody a good turn and not get found out. I will do at least two things I don’t want to do
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Man can alter his life by altering his thinking.
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Both thought and feeling are determinants of conduct, and the same conduct may be determined either by feeling or by thought.
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There is but one unconditional commandment … to bring about the very largest total universe of good which we can see.
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So our self-feeling in this world depends entirely on what we back ourselves to be and do.
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Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
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When thoughts do not neutralize an undesirable emotion, action will.
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For morality life is a war, and the service of the highest is a sort of cosmic patriotism which also calls for volunteers.
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Modern man . . . has not ceased to be credulous . . . the need to believe haunts him.
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At bottom, the whole concern of religion is with the manner of our acceptance of the universe.
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The total possible consciousness may be split into parts which co-exist but mutually ignore each other.
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The general law is that no mental modification ever occurs which is not accompanied or followed by a bodily change.
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The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one.
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