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William James

All religions begin with the cry Help.
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Cry Helping Religion
True to her inveterate habit, rationalism reverts to ‘principles,’ and thinks that when an abstraction once is named, we own an oracular solution.
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Habit Principles Thinking
Our view of the world is truly shaped by what we decide to hear.
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Decide Shaped Views World
When thoughts do not neutralize an undesirable emotion, action will.
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Action Emotion Inspiration
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
If you want to change your life, do it flamboyantly and start immediately.
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Changing Immediately Life Want
Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.
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Believe Faith Philosophical
The greatest weapon we have to combat stress is the ability to choose our thoughts.
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Combat Stress Weapons
Religion is a monumental chapter in the history of human egotism.
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Chapters Egotism Religion
With no attempt there can be no failure; with no failure no humiliation.
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Attempt Failure Humiliation No
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
[Religion is] the attempt to be in harmony with an unseen order of things.
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Grace Order Unseen
Faith is synonymous with working hypothesis.
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Faith Hypothesis
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
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
Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.
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Clever Motivational Procrastination

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