Tension is a habit. Relaxing is a habit. Bad habits can be broken, good habits formed.
WILLIAM JAMESMan, biologically considered … is simply the most formidable of all beasts of prey, and, indeed, the only one that preys systematically on its own kind.
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[T]here is very little difference between one person and another, but what little difference ther eis, is very important.
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Experience, as we know, has a way of boiling over, and making us correct our present formulas.
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An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.
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The first lecture in psychology that I ever heard was the first I ever gave.
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We are thinking beings, and we cannot exclude the intellect from participating in any of our functions.
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Genius… means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.
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Each of us is in fact what he is almost exclusively by virtue of his imitative-ness.
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Success plus Self-esteem equals Pretensions.
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A man of sense is never discouraged by difficulties; he redoubles his industry and his diligence, he perseveres and infallibly prevails at last.
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The ‘I think’ which Kant said must be able to accompany all my objects, is the ‘I breathe’ which actually does accompany them.
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If you give appreciation to people, you win their goodwill. But more important than that, practicing this philosophy has made a different person of me.
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No one sees further into a generalization than his own knowledge of detail extends.
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All natural happiness thus seems infected with a contradiction. The breath of the sepulchre surrounds it.
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A man with no philosophy in him is the most inauspicious and unprofitable of all possible social mates.
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The impulse to take life strivingly is indestructible in the race.
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