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[Religion is] the attempt to be in harmony with an unseen order of things.

William James

Asceticism may be a mere expression of organic hardihood, disgusted with too much ease.
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Asceticism Ease Expression
Most unhappiness is caused because people listen to themselves… instead of talking to themselves.
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People Talking Unhappiness
No one sees further into a generalization than his own knowledge of detail extends.
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Details Generalization Knowledge
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
No bell in us tolls to let us know for certain when truth is in our grasp.
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Bells Tolls Truth
So our self-feeling in this world depends entirely on what we back ourselves to be and do.
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Feelings Self World
The deepest hunger in human beings is the desire to be appreciated.
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Appreciate Desire Friendship
We are stereotyped creatures, imitators and copiers of our past selves.
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Habit Past Self
He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed.
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Encouragement Encouraging Inspirational
The union of the mathematician with the poet, fervor with measure, passion with correctness, this surely is the ideal.
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Math Passion Union
Deepest principle of human nature is to be appreciated.
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Appreciated Human Nature Principles
The mind, in short, works on the data it receives very much as the sculptor works on his block of stone.
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Block Data Mind
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
You can alter your life by altering the state of your mind.
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Altering Life Mind States
We forget that every good that is worth possessing must be paid for in strokes of daily effort.
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Best Effort Forget Hard Work
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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Art Force Process

[Religion is] the attempt to be in harmony with an unseen order of things.

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