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Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.

William James

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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Bystanders Eye Teaching
In the matter of belief, we are all extreme conservatives.
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Belief Extremes Matter
At bottom, the whole concern of religion is with the manner of our acceptance of the universe.
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Acceptance Wisdom Wise
Let everything you do be done as if it makes a difference.
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Differences Everything Insightful Making
For the moment, what we attend to is reality.
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Attend Moments Reality
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
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Positive Wisdom Wise
To some of us the thought of God is like a sort of quiet music playing in the background of the mind.
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Mind Philosophy Quiet
Our faith is faith in someone else’s faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.
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Cases Matter Philosophical
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
Footnotes — little dogs yapping at the heels of the text
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Dog Littles Writing
The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly.
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Attitude Mean Ugly
The first lecture in psychology that I ever heard was the first I ever gave.
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Firsts Lecture Psychology
We want all our friends to tell us our bad qualities; it is only the particular ass that does so whom we can’t tolerate.
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Best Cute Friendship Friend Quality
But facts are facts, and if we only get enough of them theyare sure to combine.
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Combine Enough Fact Facts
Man lives in only one small room of the enormous house of his consciousness.
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Men Small Rooms Thinking
The greatest weapon we have to combat stress is the ability to choose our thoughts.
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Combat Stress Weapons
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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Belief Desire Truth
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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Discovery Men Mind
Anything you may hold firmly in your imagination can be yours.
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Anything Firmly Imagination May
We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.
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Opposites Statement Truth
When once a decision is reached and execution is the order of the day, dismiss absolutely all responsibility and care about the outcome.
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Decision Order Responsibility
The instant field of the present is at all times what I call the ‘pure’ experience. It is only virtually or potentially either object or subject as yet.
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All Fields Instant Time
Objective evidence and certitude are doubtless very fine ideals to play with, but where on this moonlit and dream-visited planet are they found?
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Dream Play Science
Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive.
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Alive Attitude Authenticity
To improve the golden moment of opportunity, and catch the good that is within our reach, is the great art of life.
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Art Life Positive
Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system
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Credit Facts Truth
Our view of the world is truly shaped by what we decide to hear.
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Decide Shaped Views World

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