So 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.
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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The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.
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No bell in us tolls to let us know for certain when truth is in our grasp.
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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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He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed.
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I myself believe that the evidence for God lies primarily in inner personal experiences.
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Religion is a monumental chapter in the history of human egotism.
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How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.
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Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
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To know an object is to lead to it through a context which the world provides
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Modern man . . . has not ceased to be credulous . . . the need to believe haunts him.
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Circumstance does not make me, it reveals me.
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It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.
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All natural happiness thus seems infected with a contradiction. The breath of the sepulchre surrounds it.
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If you want to change your life, do it flamboyantly and start immediately.
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A new idea is first condemned as ridiculous and then dismissed as trivial, until finally, it becomes what everybody knows.
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