To give up pretensions is as blessed a relief as to get them ratified.
WILLIAM JAMESThe general law is that no mental modification ever occurs which is not accompanied or followed by a bodily change.
More William James Quotes
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Touch is the alpha and omega of affection.
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Man can alter his life by altering his thinking.
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The sovereign cure for worry is prayer.
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Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.
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Genius is the capacity for seeing relationships where lesser men see none.
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There can be no difference anywhere that does not make a difference somewhere.
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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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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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All religions begin with the cry Help.
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Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.
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I don’t sing because I’m happy; I’m happy because I sing.
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Religion . . . shall mean for us the feelings, acts and experiences of individual men in their solitude.
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We must be careful not to confuse data with the abstractions we use to analyse them.
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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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There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man’s lack of faith in his true Self.
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