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[Religion is] the attempt to be in harmony with an unseen order of things.

William James

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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Destiny Men Tree
An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.
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Ethics Philosophical Quality
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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Mind Peculiar Self
Our beliefs and our attention are the same fact.
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Attention Belief Facts
A new position of responsibility will usually show a man to be a far stronger creature than was supposed.
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Men Responsibility Stronger
It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.
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Believe Government Philosophical
So our self-feeling in this world depends entirely on what we back ourselves to be and do.
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Feelings Self World
A man of sense is never discouraged by difficulties; he redoubles his industry and his diligence, he perseveres and infallibly prevails at last.
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Meaningful Motivational Perseverance
Asceticism may be a mere expression of organic hardihood, disgusted with too much ease.
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Asceticism Ease Expression
To know an object is to lead to it through a context which the world provides
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Objects Truth World
Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.
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Clever Motivational Procrastination
You can alter your life by altering the state of your mind.
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Altering Life Mind States
Facts’ are the bounds of human knowledge, set for it, not by it.
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Facts Knowledge Science
Deepest principle of human nature is to be appreciated.
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Appreciated Human Nature Principles
Anything you may hold firmly in your imagination can be yours.
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Anything Firmly Imagination May
Truth, as any dictionary will tell you, is a property of certain of our ideas. It means their agreement, as falsity means their disagreement, with reality.
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Mean Reality Truth

[Religion is] the attempt to be in harmony with an unseen order of things.

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