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.
WILLIAM JAMESTo know an object is to lead to it through a context which the world provides
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If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.
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Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.
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The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.
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Religion . . . shall mean for us the feelings, acts and experiences of individual men in their solitude.
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Circumstance does not make me, it reveals me.
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The sovereign cure for worry is prayer.
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Since you make evil or good by your own thoughts, it is your ruling of your thoughts which proves to be your principal concern.
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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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There can be no difference anywhere that does not make a difference somewhere.
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Democracy is still upon its trial. The civic genius of our people is its only bulwark.
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Mankind’s common instinct for reality has always held the world to be essentially a theatre for heroism.
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I myself believe that the evidence for God lies primarily in inner personal experiences.
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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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Our faith is faith in someone else’s faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.
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Everything which is demanded is by that fact a good.
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