American - Philosopher | January 11, 1842 - August 26, 1910
If any organism fails to fulfill its potentialities, it becomes sick.
William James
SickOrganismAnyFulfillBecomes
Every man who possibly can should force himself to a holiday of a full month in a year, whether he feels like taking it or not.
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This life is worth living, we can say, since it is what we make it.
LifeWorthSayLivingWorth Living
When you have to make a choice and don't make it, that is in itself a choice.
YouChoiceMakeItself
The sovereign cure for worry is prayer.
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An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.
QualityPossibleWhateverOutAct
The greatest enemy of any one of our truths may be the rest of our truths.
RestEnemyGreatestMayOurTruths
To spend life for something which outlasts it.
LifeSomethingWhichSpend
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.
TogetherControlActionFeelingGo
Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.
FaithDoubtBeliefPossibleMeans
It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.
BelieveWrongAlwaysAnything
An idea, to be suggestive, must come to the individual with the force of revelation.
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