The impulse to take life strivingly is indestructible in the race.
WILLIAM JAMESModern man . . . has not ceased to be credulous . . . the need to believe haunts him.
More William James Quotes
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The God of many men is little more than their court of appeal against the damnatory judgment passed on their failures by the opinion of the world.
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Since you make evil or good by your own thoughts, it is your ruling of your thoughts which proves to be your principal concern.
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Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
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There’s nothing so absurd that if you repeat it often enough, people will believe it.
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The greatest weapon we have to combat stress is the ability to choose our thoughts.
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The sovereign cure for worry is prayer.
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[T]here is very little difference between one person and another, but what little difference ther eis, is very important.
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But facts are facts, and if we only get enough of them theyare sure to combine.
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New habits can be launched.
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Focus on increasing service. Becoming great where you are. Pile in the wood. The heat will follow.
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Anything you may hold firmly in your imagination can be yours.
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The most peculiar social self which one is apt to have is in the mind of the person one is in love with.
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Man can change his life simply by changing his attitude.
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Religious awe is the same organic thrill which we feel in a forest at twilight, or in a mountain gorge.
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Where is it, this present? It has melted in our grasp, fled ere we could touch it, gone in the instant of becoming.
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