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Feel Quotes by William James
- The more rational statement is that we feel sorry because we strike, afraid because we tremble, and not that we cry, strike, or tremble because…
- 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…
- Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed. which give happiness. Thomas Jefferson…
- Mankind's common instinct for reality has always held the world to be essentially a theatre for heroism. In heroism, we feel, life's supreme mystery is…
- So to feel brave, act as if we were brave, use all our will to that end...and a courage-fit will very likely replace the fit…
- Between what a man calls me and what he simply calls mine the line is difficult to draw. We feel and act about certain things…
- Religious awe is the same organic thrill which we feel in a forest at twilight, or in a mountain gorge.
- Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive.
- The university most worthy of rational admiration is that one in which your lonely thinker can feel himself lonely, most positively furthered, and most richly…
- Success or failure depends more upon attitude than upon capacity successful men act as though they have accomplished or are enjoying something. Soon it becomes…
- To suggest personal will and effort to one all sicklied o'er with the sense of irremediable impotence is to suggest the most impossible of things.…
- Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive, along with which comes the inner voice which says, 'This…
- The voluntary path to cheerfulness, if our spontaneous cheerfulness be lost, is to sit up cheerfully, and act and speak as if cheerfulness were already…
- Or if the hypothesis were offered us of a world in which Messrs. Fourier's and Bellamy's and Morris's Utopias should all be outdone, and millions…
- 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…
- Mankind's common instinct for reality has always held the world to be essentially a theatre for heroism. In heroism, we feel, life's supreme mystery is…
More Feel Quotes
- As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- I feel like obviously the standard for what TV looks like changes all the time. — J. J. Abrams
- Stories surge up out of nowhere, and if they feel compelling, you follow them. You let them unfold inside you and see… — Paul Auster
- Writing makes you feel that there is a reason to go on living. If I couldn't write, I would stop breathing. — Paul Auster
- Yes, all fundamentalists feel that in a secular society, God has been relegated to the margin, to the periphery and they are… — Karen Armstrong
- It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut one… — Neil Armstrong
- No matter how busy you are, you must take time to make the other person feel important. — Mary Kay Ash
- Everyone has an invisible sign hanging from their neck saying, 'Make me feel important.' Never forget this message when working with people. — Mary Kay Ash
- Pretend that every single person you meet has a sign around his or her neck that says, 'Make me feel important.' Not… — Mary Kay Ash
- We don't have sources who are dissidents on other sources. Should they come forward, that would be a tricky situation for us.… — Julian Assange
- I feel like soundtrack music is almost like seeing the movie again, but with my ears. — Dave Attell
- People must feel that the natural world is important and valuable and beautiful and wonderful and an amazement and a pleasure. — David Attenborough