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I myself believe that the evidence for God lies primarily in inner personal experiences.

William James

When you have broken the reality into concepts you never can reconstruct it in its wholeness.
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Broken Concepts Reality
The most peculiar social self which one is apt to have is in the mind of the person one is in love with.
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Mind Peculiar Self
Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.
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Hate Inspirational Life
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
Fear of life in one form or another is the great thing to exorcise.
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Fears Form Great Life Things
You may not get everything you dream about, but you will never get anything you don’t dream about.
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Anything Dream Everything May
We with our lives are like islands in the sea, or like trees in the forest… But the trees also commingle their roots in the darkness underground.
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Islands Roots Sea Underground
If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.
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Esteem Leadership Quality Self
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
The deepest human need is the need to be appreciated.
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Appreciated Humans Needs
Every individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony.
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Agony Individual Lonely
The lunatic’s visions of horror are all drawn from the material of daily fact.
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Facts Insanity Vision
Our view of the world is truly shaped by what we decide to hear.
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Decide Shaped Views World
True ideas are those that we can assimilate, validate, corroborate, and verify. False ideas are those that we cannot
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Ideas Truth Verify
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
The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.
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Fear Happiness Stress

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