I myself believe that the evidence for God lies primarily in inner personal experiences.
WILLIAM JAMESHabit is a second nature, or rather, it is ‘ten times nature’.
More William James Quotes
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Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive.
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Give your dreams all you’ve got, and you’ll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you.
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Touch is the alpha and omega of affection.
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Most men have a good memory for facts connected with their own pursuits.
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The sovereign cure for worry is prayer.
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Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
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Every individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony.
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To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.
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Just for today I will exercise my soul in three ways: I will do somebody a good turn and not get found out. I will do at least two things I don’t want to do
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Let everything you do be done as if it makes a difference.
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An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.
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A man with no philosophy in him is the most inauspicious and unprofitable of all possible social mates.
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Religious awe is the same organic thrill which we feel in a forest at twilight, or in a mountain gorge.
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The minute a man ceases to grow, no matter what his years, that minute he begins to be old.
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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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