The great thing, then, in all education, is to make our nervous system our ally instead of our enemy.
WILLIAM JAMESHe who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed.
More William James Quotes
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Every individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony.
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New habits can be launched.
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A paradise of inward tranquility seems to be faith’s usual result.
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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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Anything you may hold firmly in your imagination can be yours.
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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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The true’to put it very briefly, is only the expedient in the way of our thinking, just as ‘the right’ is only the expedient in the way of our behaving.
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The minute a man ceases to grow, no matter what his years, that minute he begins to be old.
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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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Man can alter his life by altering his thinking.
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Man lives in only one small room of the enormous house of his consciousness.
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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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Genius… means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.
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Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day.
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We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.
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