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«Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact»
Author: William James
(Philosopher, Psychologist)
| About:
Belief
| Keywords:
belief, create, facts of life, The Facts of Life
«We are spinning our own fates, good or evil, and never to be undone. Every smallest stroke of virtue or of vice leaves its never-so-little scar.»
Author: William James
(Philosopher, Psychologist)
| Keywords:
Fates, leaves, scar, smallest, spinning, spins, spin out, spun, stroke, stroked, The Strokes, undid, undoes, undone, vice
«The minute a man ceases to grow, no matter what his years, that minute he begins to be old.»
«The emotions aren't always immediately subject to reason, but they are always immediately subject to action»
Author: William James
(Philosopher, Psychologist)
| About:
Emotion
| Keywords:
emotions, immediately, subject, subject to
«Action seems to follow feeling, but really action and feeling go together; and by regulating the action, which is under the more direct control of the will, we can indirectly regulate the feeling, which is not.»
Author: William James
(Philosopher, Psychologist)
| Keywords:
direct, direct action, go together, indirectly, regulate, regulates, regulating, the Action
«No matter how full a reservoir of maxims one may possess, and no matter how good one's sentiments may be, if one has not taken advantage of every concrete opportunity to act, one's character may retain entirely unaffected for the better.»
Author: William James
(Philosopher, Psychologist)
| Keywords:
advantage, concrete, entirely, maxims, reservoir, reservoirs, retain, retaining, sentiments, unaffected
«Never suffer an exception to occur till the new habit is securely rooted in your life. Each lapse is like the letting fall of a ball of string which one is carefully winding up; a single slip undoes more than a great many turns will wind again.»
«Why should we think upon things that are lovely? Because thinking determines life. It is a common habit to blame life upon the environment. Environment modifies life but does not govern life. The soul is stronger than its surroundings.»
Author: William James
(Philosopher, Psychologist)
| Keywords:
blame, determines, environment, govern, lovely, modifies, modifying, surroundings
«Ninety-nine hundredths or, possibly, nine hundred and ninety-nine thousandths of our activity is purely automatic and habitual, from our rising in the morning to our lying down each night.»
Author: William James
(Philosopher, Psychologist)
| Keywords:
activity, automatic, habitual, hundredths, ninety, Ninety nine, Nine hundred, possibly, purely, rising, thousandth, thousandths
«It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.»
Author: William James
(Philosopher, Psychologist)
| About:
Life,
Risk-taking
| Keywords:
one hour, persons, risking
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