Pure experience’ is the name I gave to the immediate flux of life which furnishes the material to our later reflection with its conceptual categories.
WILLIAM JAMESThere is but one cause of human failure. And that is man’s lack of faith in his true Self.
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The greatest weapon we have to combat stress is the ability to choose our thoughts.
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We are stereotyped creatures, imitators and copiers of our past selves.
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If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.
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Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive.
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Man lives in only one small room of the enormous house of his consciousness.
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There’s nothing so absurd that if you repeat it often enough, people will believe it.
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Faith is synonymous with working hypothesis.
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With no attempt there can be no failure; with no failure no humiliation.
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It is very important that teachers should realize the importance of habit.
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Each of us is in fact what he is almost exclusively by virtue of his imitative-ness.
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Everything which is demanded is by that fact a good.
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Habit is a second nature, or rather, it is ‘ten times nature’.
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In all primary school work the principle of multiple impressions is well recognized.
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A paradise of inward tranquility seems to be faith’s usual result.
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There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man’s lack of faith in his true Self.
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