"So to feel brave, act as if..." - Quote by William James
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 of fear.
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“Our ideas must agree with realities, be such realities concrete or abstract”
“All the higher, more penetrating ideals are revolutionary. They present themselves far less in the guise of effects of past experience than in that of probable causes of future experience, factors to which the environment and the lessons it has so far taught us must learn to bend.”
“Need and struggle are what excite and inspire us; our hour of triumph is what brings the void.”
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“Make it so today is not like yesterday and tomorrow will be different FOREVER.”
“Connect. Embrace. Liberate. Love somebody. Just one person. And then spread that to two. And as many as you can. You'll see the difference it makes.”
“The happiness and unhappiness of the rational, social animal depends not on what he feels but on what he does; just as his virtue and vice consist not in feeling but in doing.”