Tension is a habit. Relaxing is a habit. Bad habits can be broken, good habits formed.
WILLIAM JAMESTension is a habit. Relaxing is a habit. Bad habits can be broken, good habits formed.
WILLIAM JAMESWe may be in the Universe as dogs and cats are in our libraries, seeing the books and hearing the conversation, but having no inkling of the meaning of it all.
WILLIAM JAMESThe great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
WILLIAM JAMESThe sovereign cure for worry is prayer.
WILLIAM JAMESMan alone of all the creatures of earth can change his own pattern. Man alone is the architect of his own destiny.
WILLIAM JAMESFootnotes — little dogs yapping at the heels of the text
WILLIAM JAMESIt is very important that teachers should realize the importance of habit.
WILLIAM JAMESModern man . . . has not ceased to be credulous . . . the need to believe haunts him.
WILLIAM JAMESThe 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.
WILLIAM JAMESSuccess plus Self-esteem equals Pretensions.
WILLIAM JAMESThe discovery of the power of our thoughts will prove to be the most important discovery of our time
WILLIAM JAMESOur beliefs and our attention are the same fact.
WILLIAM JAMESMen habitually use only a small part of the power which they actually possess.
WILLIAM JAMESOur view of the world is truly shaped by what we decide to hear.
WILLIAM JAMESReligion . . . shall mean for us the feelings, acts and experiences of individual men in their solitude.
WILLIAM JAMESFear of life in one form or another is the great thing to exorcise.
WILLIAM JAMES