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The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.

William James

I myself believe that the evidence for God lies primarily in inner personal experiences.
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Belief Believe Experience Lying
Religion . . . shall mean for us the feelings, acts and experiences of individual men in their solitude.
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Mean Men Solitude
New habits can be launched.
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Habit New Launched
We are thinking beings, and we cannot exclude the intellect from participating in any of our functions.
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Function Intellect Thinking
We hear the words we have spoken, feel our own blow as we give it, or read in the bystander’s eyes the success or failure of our conduct.
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Bystanders Eye Teaching
You must bring out of each word its practical cash-value, set it at work within the stream of your experience.
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Cash Experience Stream
Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.
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Clever Motivational Procrastination
A man has as many social selves as there are individuals who recognize him.
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Individual Men Self
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
The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.
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Fear Happiness Stress
The impulse to take life strivingly is indestructible in the race.
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Free Race Vagueness Will
The strenuous life tastes better
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Better Strenuous Taste
If merely ‘feeling good’ could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.
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Alcohol Feel Feelings Good
I am well aware how odd it must seem to some of you to hear me say that an idea is true so long as to believe it is profitable to our lives
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Believe Ideas Truth
Anything you may hold firmly in your imagination can be yours.
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Anything Firmly Imagination May
To neglect the wise sayings of great thinkers is to deny ourselves the truest education.
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Deny Neglect Wise

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