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

William James

Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.
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Emergencies Encouragement Sith
Philosophy lives in words, but truth and fact well up into our lives in ways that exceed verbal formulation.
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Facts Philosophy Way
Deepest principle of human nature is to be appreciated.
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Appreciated Human Nature Principles
Man, whatever else he may be, is primarily a practical being, whose mind is given him to aid in adapting him to this world’s life
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Educational Men Philosophy
It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.
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Change Life Positive
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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Inspirational Motivational Positive
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
To know an object is to lead to it through a context which the world provides
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Objects Truth World
Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
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Encouraging Life Positive
A man of sense is never discouraged by difficulties; he redoubles his industry and his diligence, he perseveres and infallibly prevails at last.
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Meaningful Motivational Perseverance
Both thought and feeling are determinants of conduct, and the same conduct may be determined either by feeling or by thought.
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Determine Feelings May
The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.
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Community Friendship Sympathy
With mere good intentions hell is proverbially paved.
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Good Hell Intention Intentions
In all primary school work the principle of multiple impressions is well recognized.
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Educational Philosophy School
The strenuous life tastes better
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Better Strenuous Taste
The impulse to take life strivingly is indestructible in the race.
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Free Race Vagueness Will
You can alter your life by altering the state of your mind.
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Altering Life Mind States
Our beliefs are really rules for action.
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Action Belief Really Rules
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
Man, biologically considered … is simply the most formidable of all beasts of prey, and, indeed, the only one that preys systematically on its own kind.
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Beast Kind Men
The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
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Ideas Men Twenties
Owing to the fact that all experience is a process, no point of view can ever be the last one
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Owing Truth Views
A new idea is first condemned as ridiculous and then dismissed as trivial, until finally, it becomes what everybody knows.
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Change Dream Inspirational
So it is with children who learn to read fluently and well: They begin to take flight into whole new worlds as effortlessly as young birds take to the sky.
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Children Effortless Reading Sky
Anything you may hold firmly in your imagination can be yours.
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Anything Firmly Imagination May
Experience, as we know, has a way of boiling over, and making us correct our present formulas.
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Boiling Experience Over Way

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

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