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I myself believe that the evidence for God lies primarily in inner personal experiences.

William James

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
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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Happiness Laughter Men
Where is it, this present? It has melted in our grasp, fled ere we could touch it, gone in the instant of becoming.
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Becoming Gone Instant
To know an object is to lead to it through a context which the world provides
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Objects Truth World
A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.
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Life Stay Strong Ties
Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.
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Emergencies Encouragement Sith
Everything which is demanded is by that fact a good.
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Demanded Everything Facts
The greatest weapon we have to combat stress is the ability to choose our thoughts.
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Combat Stress Weapons
For the moment, what we attend to is reality.
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Attend Moments Reality
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
… the intellect, everywhere invasive, shows everywhere its shallowing effect.
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Effects Intellect Shows
Since you make evil or good by your own thoughts, it is your ruling of your thoughts which proves to be your principal concern.
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Evil Prove Ruling
I don’t sing because I’m happy; I’m happy because I sing.
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Happiness Music Philosophical
True to her inveterate habit, rationalism reverts to ‘principles,’ and thinks that when an abstraction once is named, we own an oracular solution.
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Habit Principles Thinking
Genius… means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.
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Creativity Mean Science
Men’s activities are occupied into ways — in grappling with external circumstances and in striving to set things at one in their own topsy-turvy mind.
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Men Mind Way

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