If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.
WILLIAM JAMESTo study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.
More William James Quotes
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Deepest principle of human nature is to be appreciated.
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Wisdom is learning what to overlook.
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The greatest weapon we have to combat stress is the ability to choose our thoughts.
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To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.
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Our beliefs and our attention are the same fact.
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In all primary school work the principle of multiple impressions is well recognized.
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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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Touch is the alpha and omega of affection.
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It is very important that teachers should realize the importance of habit.
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Real culture lives by sympathies and admirations, not by dislikes and disdains; under all misleading wrappings it pounces unerringly upon the human core.
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There can be no existence of evil as a force to the healthy-minded individual.
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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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Habit is thus the enormous fly-wheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. It alone is what keeps us all within the bounds of ordinance.
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Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.
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Everything which is demanded is by that fact a good.
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