The greatest weapon we have to combat stress is the ability to choose our thoughts.
WILLIAM JAMESFor morality life is a war, and the service of the highest is a sort of cosmic patriotism which also calls for volunteers.
More William James Quotes
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Let everything you do be done as if it makes a difference.
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Our intelligence cannot wall itself up alive, like a pupa in a chrysalis. It must at any cost keep on speaking terms with the universe that engendered it.
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In all primary school work the principle of multiple impressions is well recognized.
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We with our lives are like islands in the sea, or like trees in the forest… But the trees also commingle their roots in the darkness underground.
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In business for yourself, not by yourself.
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Democracy is still upon its trial. The civic genius of our people is its only bulwark.
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It is very important that teachers should realize the importance of habit.
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On pragmatistic principles, if the hypothesis of God works satisfactorily in the widest sense of the word, it is true.
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The impulse to take life strivingly is indestructible in the race.
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Pure experience’ is the name I gave to the immediate flux of life which furnishes the material to our later reflection with its conceptual categories.
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Time itself comes in drops.
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The instant field of the present is at all times what I call the ‘pure’ experience. It is only virtually or potentially either object or subject as yet.
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Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive.
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Where is it, this present? It has melted in our grasp, fled ere we could touch it, gone in the instant of becoming.
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You must bring out of each word its practical cash-value, set it at work within the stream of your experience.
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