If you believe that feeling bad or worrying long enough will change a past or future event, then you are residing on another planet with a different reality system.

Let anyone try, I will not say to arrest, but to notice or to attend to, the present moment of time. One of the most baffling experiences occurs. Where is it, this present? It has melted in our grasp, fled ere we could touch it, gone in the instant of becoming.

We are stereotyped creatures, imitators and copiers of our past selves.

That which is most personal, is most interesting.

The exercise of voluntary attention in the schoolroom must therefore be counted one of the most important points of training that take place there; and the first-rate teacher, by the keenness of the remoter interests which he is able to awaken, will provide abundant opportunities for its occurrence.

At bottom, the whole concern of religion is with the manner of our acceptance of the universe.

It is only the fundamental conceptions of psychology which are of real value to a teacher.