We and God have business with each other, and in opening ourselves to God's influence our deepest destiny is fulfilled.
William JamesWe forget that every good that is worth possessing must be paid for in strokes of daily effort. We postpone and postpone until those smiling possibilities are dead... By neglecting the necessary concrete labor, by sparing ourselves the little daily tax, we are positively digging the graves of our higher possibilities.
William JamesIf merely 'feeling good' could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.
William JamesThe great thing, then, in all education, is to make our nervous system our ally instead of our enemy.
William James