I myself believe that the evidence for God lies primarily in inner personal experiences.
WILLIAM JAMESIf merely ‘feeling good’ could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.
More William James Quotes
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Tension is a habit. Relaxing is a habit. Bad habits can be broken, good habits formed.
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The power to move the world is in the subconcious mind
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How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.
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Modern man . . . has not ceased to be credulous . . . the need to believe haunts him.
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Procrastination is attitude’s natural assassin. There’s nothing so fatiguing as an uncompleted task
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The general law is that no mental modification ever occurs which is not accompanied or followed by a bodily change.
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Language is the most imperfect and expensive means yet discovered for communicating thought.
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Success plus Self-esteem equals Pretensions.
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Circumstance does not make me, it reveals me.
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Our beliefs are really rules for action.
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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
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Man lives in only one small room of the enormous house of his consciousness.
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Once you accept an idea, it’s an idea whose time has come.
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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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Man alone of all the creatures of earth can change his own pattern. Man alone is the architect of his own destiny.
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