"Actions seems to follow feeling, but really actions and feeling go together; and by regulating the action, which is under the more direct control of the will, we can indirectly regulate the feeling, which is not. Thus the sovereign voluntary path to cheerfulness, if our cheerfulness be lost, is to sit up cheerfully and to act and speak as if cheerfulness were already there."

-- William James

#Feelings Quotes #Together Quotes #Path Quotes

“Sturgeon's Law: 90% of everything is crap.”
“I have developed a Samoan mentality. You have to be a gentleman everywhere but on the field.”
“I asked my girlfriend, 'Will you marry me?' She said, 'We'll have to ask my father.' So we had a seance and Jack Ruby says, 'Hello!'”
“It is said an Eastern monarch once charged his wise men to invent him a sentence to be ever in view, and which should be true and appropriate in all times and situations. They presented him the words, "And this too, shall pass away." How much it expresses! How chastening in the hour of pride! How consoling in the depths of affliction!”
“This is going to be an old fashioned Baptist camp meeting with old fashioned singing, preaching and testifying.”
“Imagination is as vital to any advance in science as learning and precision are essential for starting points. Let me warn you to beware of two opposite errors: of letting your imagination soar unballasted by facts, but on the other hand, of shackling it so solidly that it loses all incentive to rise.”
“Yesterday the Soros -funded far left group Media Matters made a big issue of Pat Robertson's idiotic statement that the US should assassinate Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chavez. Today Robertson's comment is all over mainstream media. Are we supposed to think it's news that Robertson has a few screws loose?”
“God doesn't hide Himself from you so that He can't be found; He hides Himself from you so that He can be found.”

Source : Tommy Tenney (2002). “The God Catchers: Experiencing the Manifest Presence of God”, p.15, Thomas Nelson Inc

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