The greatest weapon we have to combat stress is the ability to choose our thoughts.
WILLIAM JAMES[Religion is] the attempt to be in harmony with an unseen order of things.
More William James Quotes
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The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one.
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The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
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The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.
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To some of us the thought of God is like a sort of quiet music playing in the background of the mind.
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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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Truth happens to an idea
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If merely ‘feeling good’ could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.
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The discovery of the power of our thoughts will prove to be the most important discovery of our time
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Deepest principle of human nature is to be appreciated.
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You may not get everything you dream about, but you will never get anything you don’t dream about.
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There’s nothing so absurd that if you repeat it often enough, people will believe it.
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I myself believe that the evidence for God lies primarily in inner personal experiences.
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True ideas are those that we can assimilate, validate, corroborate, and verify. False ideas are those that we cannot
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The minute a man ceases to grow, no matter what his years, that minute he begins to be old.
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On pragmatistic principles, if the hypothesis of God works satisfactorily in the widest sense of the word, it is true.
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