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Shifting Quotes by William James
- 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…
- Humanism . . . is not a single hypothesis or theorem, and it dwells on no new facts. It is rather a slow shifting in…
More Shifting Quotes
- Whether you've seen angels floating around your bedroom or just found a ray of hope at a lonely moment, choosing to believe… — Martha Beck
- Given the eclectic and constantly shifting nature of my metaphysical inclinations, I will probably never feel certain exactly what an angel is. — Martha Beck
- Living on borders and in margins, keeping intact one's shifting and multiple identity and integrity, is like trying to swim in a… — Gloria E. Anzaldúa
- By altering his arrangements and changing his plans, the skillful general keeps the enemy without definite knowledge. By shifting his camp and… — Sun Tzu
- Everybody knows how fallible memory can sometimes be. You remember certain fragments precisely, but as soon as you try to join the… — Gunter Grass
- The Professor took the old practices and studied them, worked out their mechanical principles and then devised a graded scientific set of… — John Dewey
- There is indeed no such thing in life as absolute darkness; one's eyes revolt and hasten to fill the vacuum by floating… — Gelett Burgess
- In this modern world plagued with counterfeits for the Lord's plan, we must not be misled into supposing that we can discharge… — Marion G. Romney