Success plus Self-esteem equals Pretensions.
WILLIAM JAMESA paradise of inward tranquility seems to be faith’s usual result.
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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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With mere good intentions hell is proverbially paved.
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Science, like life, feeds on its own decay. New facts burst old rules; then newly divined conceptions bind old and new together into a reconciling law.
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New habits can be launched.
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Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being.
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In the matter of belief, we are all extreme conservatives.
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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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Effort is the one strictly undervalued and original contribution we make to this world.
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To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.
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The emotions aren’t always immediately subject to reason, but they are always immediately subject to action.
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The sovereign cure for worry is prayer.
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All of our life is but a mass of small habits – practical, emotional, intellectual and spiritual – that bear us irresistibly toward our destiny.
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When thoughts do not neutralize an undesirable emotion, action will.
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The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.
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Real culture lives by sympathies and admirations, not by dislikes and disdains; under all misleading wrappings it pounces unerringly upon the human core.
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