I myself believe that the evidence for God lies primarily in inner personal experiences.
WILLIAM JAMESTo change ones life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly.
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A sense of humor is just common sense dancing.
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The greatest weapon we have to combat stress is the ability to choose our thoughts.
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So it is with children who learn to read fluently and well: They begin to take flight into whole new worlds as effortlessly as young birds take to the sky.
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Fear of life in one form or another is the great thing to exorcise.
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The total possible consciousness may be split into parts which co-exist but mutually ignore each other.
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Everything which is demanded is by that fact a good.
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So our self-feeling in this world depends entirely on what we back ourselves to be and do.
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We may be in the Universe as dogs and cats are in our libraries, seeing the books and hearing the conversation, but having no inkling of the meaning of it all.
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New habits can be launched.
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The intellectual life of man consists almost wholly in his substitution of conceptual order for the perceptual order in which his experience originally comes.
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The question of free will is insoluble on strictly psychological grounds.
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To change ones life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly.
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In business for yourself, not by yourself.
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Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being.
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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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