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All of our life is but a mass of small habits - practical, emotional, intellectual and spiritual - that bear us irresistibly toward our destiny.

All of our life is but a mass of small habits - practical, emotional, intellectual and spiritual - that bear us irresistibly toward our destiny.

William James
Spiritual, Military, Destiny

We and God have business with each other, and in opening ourselves to God's influence our deepest destiny is fulfilled.

William James
Destiny, Influence, Opening
Dr. William James (2013). “The William James Reader”, p.739, Simon and Schuster

Man alone of all the creatures of earth can change his own pattern. Man alone is the architect of his own destiny.

William James
Destiny, Men, Tree

Our acts of voluntary attending, as brief and fitful as they are, are nevertheless momentous and critical, determining us, as they do, to higher or lower destinies.

William James
Destiny, Higher, Critical
William James (2013). “Talks to Teachers on Psychology and to Students on Some of Life's Ideals”, p.92, Courier Corporation

It does not follow, because our ancestors made so many errors of fact and mixed them with their religion, that we should therefore leave off being religious at all. By being religious we establish ourselves in possession of ultimate reality at the only points at which reality is given us to guard. Our responsible concern is with our private destiny, after all.

William James
Religious, Reality, Destiny
William James (1985). “The Varieties of Religious Experience”, p.394, Harvard University Press

What a magnificent land and race is this Britain! Everything about them is of better quality than the corresponding thing in the U.S.... Yet I believe (or suspect) that ours is eventually the bigger destiny, if we can only succeed in living up to it.

William James
Believe, Destiny, Race
William James, Elizabeth Hardwick (1980). “The Selected Letters of William James”, David R Godine Pub

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