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Doing Quotes by William James
- We are all potentially such sick men. The sanest and best of us are of one clay with lunatics and prison-inmates. And whenever we feel…
- The transition from tenseness, self-responsibility, and worry, to equanimity, receptivity, and peace, is the most wonderful of all those shiftings of inner equilibrium, those changes…
- My thinking is first and last and always for the sake of my doing, and I can only do one thing at a time.
- Life shall be built in doing and suffering and creating.
- As Charles Lamb says, there is nothing so nice as doing good by stealth and being found out by accident, so I now say it…
- In the dim background of mind we know what we ought to be doing but somehow we cannot start.
- Lives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or being.
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