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Just for today I will exercise my soul in three ways: I will do somebody a good turn and not get found out. I will do at least two things I don't want to do

Just for today I will exercise my soul in three ways: I will do somebody a good turn and not get found out. I will do at least two things I don't want to do

William James
Inspiration, Exercise, Two

If you want a confidence, act as if you already have it. Try the "as if" technique.

William James
Motivational, Positive, Exercise

Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day.

William James
Life And Love, Exercise, Effort
William James (2012). “Psychology: The Briefer Course”, p.15, Courier Corporation

The exercise of prayer, in those who habitually exert it, must be regarded by us doctors as the most adequate and normal of all the pacifiers of the mind and calmers of the nerves.

William James
Prayer, Exercise, Doctors
William James, Frederick Burkhardt, Fredson Bowers, Ignas K. Skrupskelis (1982). “Essays in Religion and Morality”, p.160, Harvard University Press

It is true that so far as wealth gives time for ideal ends and exercise to ideal energies, wealth is better than poverty and ought to be chosen. But wealth does this in only a portion of the actual cases. Elsewhere the desire to gain wealth and the fear to lose it are our chief breeders of cowardice and propagators of corruption. There must be thousands of conjunctures in which a wealth-bound man must be a slave, whilst a man for whom poverty has no terrors becomes a freeman.

William James
Exercise, Men, Giving
William James (2013). “The Varieties of Religious Experience”, p.368, Courier Corporation

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