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

William James

Let everything you do be done as if it makes a difference.
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Differences Everything Insightful Making
That which is most personal, is most interesting.
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Interesting Most Personal
So to feel brave, act as if we were brave, use all our will to that end…and a courage-fit will very likely replace the fit of fear.
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Anticipation Brave Use
But facts are facts, and if we only get enough of them theyare sure to combine.
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Combine Enough Fact Facts
The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.
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Fear Happiness Stress
If you want to change your life, do it flamboyantly and start immediately.
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Changing Immediately Life Want
Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.
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Clever Motivational Procrastination
An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.
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Ethics Philosophical Quality
There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man’s lack of faith in his true Self.
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Esteem Failure Inspirational Self
A man has as many social selves as there are individuals who recognize him.
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Individual Men Self
At bottom, the whole concern of religion is with the manner of our acceptance of the universe.
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Acceptance Wisdom Wise
On pragmatistic principles, if the hypothesis of God works satisfactorily in the widest sense of the word, it is true.
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God Principles Theism
I don’t sing because I’m happy; I’m happy because I sing.
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Happiness Music Philosophical
Circumstance does not make me, it reveals me.
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Character Circumstances Enough Repeated
We are thinking beings, and we cannot exclude the intellect from participating in any of our functions.
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Function Intellect Thinking
There’s nothing so absurd that if you repeat it often enough, people will believe it.
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Believe People Propaganda

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

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