Our faith is faith in someone else’s faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.
WILLIAM JAMESFaith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.
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The general law is that no mental modification ever occurs which is not accompanied or followed by a bodily change.
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We may be in the Universe as dogs and cats are in our libraries, seeing the books and hearing the conversation, but having no inkling of the meaning of it all.
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With mere good intentions hell is proverbially paved.
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If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.
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Our beliefs and our attention are the same fact.
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You may not get everything you dream about, but you will never get anything you don’t dream about.
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Focus on increasing service. Becoming great where you are. Pile in the wood. The heat will follow.
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With no attempt there can be no failure; with no failure no humiliation.
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Wisdom is learning what to overlook.
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Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.
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If merely ‘feeling good’ could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.
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Real culture lives by sympathies and admirations, not by dislikes and disdains; under all misleading wrappings it pounces unerringly upon the human core.
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When thoughts do not neutralize an undesirable emotion, action will.
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That which is most personal, is most interesting.
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Owing to the fact that all experience is a process, no point of view can ever be the last one
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