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

William James

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 greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.
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Fear Happiness Stress
Footnotes — little dogs yapping at the heels of the text
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Dog Littles Writing
No living person is sunk so low as not to be imitated by somebody.
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Failure Lows Person
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 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.
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Art Men Philosophy
The world is all the richer for having a devil in it, so long as we keep our foot upon his neck.
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Devil Feet Long
[Religion is] the attempt to be in harmony with an unseen order of things.
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Grace Order Unseen
The lunatic’s visions of horror are all drawn from the material of daily fact.
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Facts Insanity Vision
The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
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Inspirational Life Motivational
Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.
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Emergencies Encouragement Sith
All natural happiness thus seems infected with a contradiction. The breath of the sepulchre surrounds it.
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Contradiction Happiness Natural
Give your dreams all you’ve got, and you’ll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you.
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Basketball Dream Perseverance
Habit is a second nature, or rather, it is ‘ten times nature’.
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Educational Inspirational Philosophy
To neglect the wise sayings of great thinkers is to deny ourselves the truest education.
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Deny Neglect Wise
To give up pretensions is as blessed a relief as to get them ratified.
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Blessed Deception Giving Up

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

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