Touch is the alpha and omega of affection.
WILLIAM JAMESWith no attempt there can be no failure; with no failure no humiliation.
More William James Quotes
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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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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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Give your dreams all you’ve got, and you’ll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you.
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Men’s activities are occupied into ways — in grappling with external circumstances and in striving to set things at one in their own topsy-turvy mind.
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The ‘I think’ which Kant said must be able to accompany all my objects, is the ‘I breathe’ which actually does accompany them.
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History is a bath of blood.
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For the moment, what we attend to is reality.
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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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So it is with children who learn to read fluently and well: They begin to take flight into whole new worlds as effortlessly as young birds take to the sky.
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The impulse to take life strivingly is indestructible in the race.
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Our beliefs are really rules for action.
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A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.
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The deepest longing in the human breast is the desire for appreciation.
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Faith is synonymous with working hypothesis.
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Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.
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