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The discovery of the power of our thoughts will prove to be the most important discovery of our time

William James

If merely ‘feeling good’ could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.
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Alcohol Feel Feelings Good
Our intelligence cannot wall itself up alive, like a pupa in a chrysalis. It must at any cost keep on speaking terms with the universe that engendered it.
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Alive Cost Wall
The great thing, then, in all education, is to make our nervous system our ally instead of our enemy.
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Allies Education Enemy
Man lives in only one small room of the enormous house of his consciousness.
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Men Small Rooms Thinking
The drunken consciousness is one bit of the mystic consciousness, and our total opinion of it must find its place in our opinion of that larger whole.
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Consciousness Mystic Opinion
Our faith is faith in someone else’s faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.
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Cases Matter Philosophical
The deepest human need is the need to be appreciated.
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Appreciated Humans Needs
Individuality is founded in feeling
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Feelings Individuality Inspirational
It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.
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Change Life Positive
To improve the golden moment of opportunity, and catch the good that is within our reach, is the great art of life.
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Art Life Positive
Once you accept an idea, it’s an idea whose time has come.
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Accepting Daring Ideas
A new idea is first condemned as ridiculous and then dismissed as trivial, until finally, it becomes what everybody knows.
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Change Dream Inspirational
The world is all the richer for having a devil in it, so long as we keep our foot upon his neck.
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Devil Feet Long
All natural happiness thus seems infected with a contradiction. The breath of the sepulchre surrounds it.
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Contradiction Happiness Natural
At bottom, the whole concern of religion is with the manner of our acceptance of the universe.
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Acceptance Wisdom Wise
Habit is a second nature, or rather, it is ‘ten times nature’.
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Educational Inspirational Philosophy

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