The discovery of the power of our thoughts will prove to be the most important discovery of our time
WILLIAM JAMESIt seems the natural thing for us to listen whilst the Europeans talk.
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Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.
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The sovereign cure for worry is prayer.
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All natural happiness thus seems infected with a contradiction. The breath of the sepulchre surrounds it.
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In the matter of belief, we are all extreme conservatives.
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If you give appreciation to people, you win their goodwill. But more important than that, practicing this philosophy has made a different person of me.
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Facts’ are the bounds of human knowledge, set for it, not by it.
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The ‘I think’ which Kant said must be able to accompany all my objects, is the ‘I breathe’ which actually does accompany them.
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To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.
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Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive.
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All religions begin with the cry Help.
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I myself believe that the evidence for God lies primarily in inner personal experiences.
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Let everything you do be done as if it makes a difference.
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The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.
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The great thing, then, in all education, is to make our nervous system our ally instead of our enemy.
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One of the greatest discoveries of our time is that a man can alter the state of their life by altering the state of their mind.
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