The greatest weapon we have to combat stress is the ability to choose our thoughts.
WILLIAM JAMESWe are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.
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The true’to put it very briefly, is only the expedient in the way of our thinking, just as ‘the right’ is only the expedient in the way of our behaving.
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Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.
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[Religion is] the attempt to be in harmony with an unseen order of things.
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The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
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The first lecture in psychology that I ever heard was the first I ever gave.
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A new opinion counts as true just in proportion as it gratifies the individual’s desire to assimilate the novel in his experience to his beliefs in stock
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Our beliefs and our attention are the same fact.
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The most peculiar social self which one is apt to have is in the mind of the person one is in love with.
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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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All religions begin with the cry Help.
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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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Man lives in only one small room of the enormous house of his consciousness.
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The power to move the world is in the subconcious mind
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Fear of life in one form or another is the great thing to exorcise.
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Faith is synonymous with working hypothesis.
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