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You must bring out of each word its practical cash-value, set it at work within the stream of your experience.

William James

Tension is a habit. Relaxing is a habit. Bad habits can be broken, good habits formed.
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Broken Funny Habit
I am well aware how odd it must seem to some of you to hear me say that an idea is true so long as to believe it is profitable to our lives
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Believe Ideas Truth
Habit is a second nature, or rather, it is ‘ten times nature’.
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Educational Inspirational Philosophy
At bottom, the whole concern of religion is with the manner of our acceptance of the universe.
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Acceptance Wisdom Wise
We are proud of a human nature that could be so passionately extreme, but we shrink from advising others to follow the example.
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Example Human Nature Proud
I myself believe that the evidence for God lies primarily in inner personal experiences.
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Belief Believe Experience Lying
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
Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
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Inspirational Positive Success
Religion . . . shall mean for us the feelings, acts and experiences of individual men in their solitude.
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Mean Men Solitude
Our view of the world is truly shaped by what we decide to hear.
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Decide Shaped Views World
It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.
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Change Life Positive
Man can alter his life by altering his thinking.
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Attitude Philosophical Positive
A man with no philosophy in him is the most inauspicious and unprofitable of all possible social mates.
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Men Philosophy Social
Religious awe is the same organic thrill which we feel in a forest at twilight, or in a mountain gorge.
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Mountain Religious Twilight
Man lives in only one small room of the enormous house of his consciousness.
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Men Small Rooms Thinking
We can change our circumstances by a mere change of our attitude.
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Attitude Circumstances Mere

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