The God of many men is little more than their court of appeal against the damnatory judgment passed on their failures by the opinion of the world.
WILLIAM JAMESMan can alter his life by altering his thinking.
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The greatest weapon we have to combat stress is the ability to choose our thoughts.
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Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
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I myself believe that the evidence for God lies primarily in inner personal experiences.
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Modern man . . . has not ceased to be credulous . . . the need to believe haunts him.
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[Religion is] the attempt to be in harmony with an unseen order of things.
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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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True ideas are those that we can assimilate, validate, corroborate, and verify. False ideas are those that we cannot
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Habit is a second nature, or rather, it is ‘ten times nature’.
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So our self-feeling in this world depends entirely on what we back ourselves to be and do.
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The lunatic’s visions of horror are all drawn from the material of daily fact.
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The deepest longing in the human breast is the desire for appreciation.
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Man can change his life simply by changing his attitude.
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It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.
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It is art that makes life, and I know of no substitute whatsoever for the force and beauty of its process.
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Circumstance does not make me, it reveals me.
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